Definition: The transfer of blood components such as erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets, and plasma from a donor to a recipient or back to the donor. This process differs from the procedures undertaken in PLASMAPHERESIS and types of CYTAPHERESIS; (PLATELETPHERESIS and LEUKAPHERESIS) where, following the removal of plasma or the specific cell components, the remainder is transfused back to the donor.
GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics; for transfusion back to donor, coord IM with BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS (NIM); do not confuse with BLOOD COMPONENT REMOVAL & its specifics where component is removed but remainder goes back to donor; read MeSH def
ExamplesErythrocyte Transfusion; Leukocyte Transfusion; Platelet Transfusion
