Transfusion medicine and proteomics. Alliance or coexistence?

Transfusion of blood components is one of the most frequently performed clinical operations1,2. Beginning with the discovery of the AB0-blood group system by Karl Landsteiner3, the clinical relevance of transfusing blood, blood derived cells or proteins has increased constantly. Today transfusion medicine is a medical discipline and blood transfusion is embedded into one of the most advanced and regularized quality management systems in clinical...