Selected Publications

  • Thomas TA, Qiu A, Kim CY, Gordy DE, Miller A, Tredicine M, Dzieciatkowska M, Dei Zotti F, Hod EA, D’Alessandro A, Zimring JC, Spitalnik SL, Hudson KE. Reticulocytes in donor blood units enhance red blood cell alloimmunization. Accepted to Haematologica. 2023.
  • Hod EA, Brittenham GM, Bitan ZC, Feit Y, Gaelen JI, La Carpia F, Sandoval LA, Zhou AT, Soffing M, Mintz A, Schwartz J, Eng C, Scotto M, Caccappolo E, Habeck C, Stern Y, McMahon DJ, Kessler DA, Shaz BH, Francis RO, Spitalnik SL. A randomized trial of blood donor iron repletion on red cell quality for transfusion and donor cognition and well-being. Blood. 2022 Dec 22;140(25):2730-2739. doi: 10.1182/blood.2022017288. PMID: 36069596; PMCID: PMC9837440.
  • Moriconi C, Dzieciatkowska M, Roy M, D'Alessandro A, Roingeard P, Lee JY, Gibb DR, Tredicine M, McGill MA, Qiu A, La Carpia F, Francis RO, Hod EA, Thomas T, Picard M, Akpan IJ, Luckey CJ, Zimring JC, Spitalnik SL, Hudson KE. Retention of functional mitochondria in mature red blood cells from patients with sickle cell disease. Br J Haematol. 2022 Aug;198(3):574-586. doi: 10.1111/bjh.18287. Epub 2022 Jun 7. PMID: 35670632; PMCID: PMC9329257.
  • La Carpia F, Slate A, Bandyopadhyay S, Wojczyk BS, Godbey EA, Francis KP, Prestia K, Hod EA. Red blood cell transfusion-induced non-transferrin-bound iron promotes Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms in human sera and mortality in catheterized mice. Br J Haematol. 2022 Feb;196(4):1105-1110. PMID: 34726258. PMCID: PMC8831455.
  • Kim CY, Johnson H, Peltier S, Spitalnik SL, Hod EA, Francis RO, Hudson KE, Stone EF, Gordy DE, Fu X, Zimring JC, Amireault P, Buehler PW, Wilson RB, D'Alessandro A, Shchepinov MS, Thomas T. Deuterated Linoleic Acid Attenuates the RBC Storage Lesion in a Mouse Model of Poor RBC Storage. Front Physiol. 2022 Apr 26;13:868578. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2022.868578. PMID: 35557972; PMCID: PMC9086239.
  • Visser GHA, Thommesen T, Di Renzo GC, Nassar AH, Spitalnik SL & the FIGO Committee for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health. FIGO/ICM guidelines for preventing Rhesus disease: A call to action. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 152:144-147. 2021.
  • O'Donnell MR, Grinsztejn B, Cummings MJ, Justman JE, Lamb MR, Eckhardt CM, Philip NM, Cheung YK, Gupta V, João E, Pilotto JH, Diniz MP, Cardoso SW, Abrams D, Rajagopalan KN, Borden SE, Wolf A, Sidi LC, Vizzoni A, Veloso VG, Bitan ZC, Scotto DE, Meyer BJ, Jacobson SD, Kantor A, Mishra N, Chauhan LV, Stone EF, Dei Zotti F, La Carpia F, Hudson KE, Ferrara SA, Schwartz J, Stotler BA, Lin WW, Wontakal SN, Shaz B, Briese T, Hod EA, Spitalnik SL, Eisenberger A, Lipkin WI. A randomized double-blind controlled trial of convalescent plasma in adults with severe COVID-19. J Clin Invest. 2021;131(13):e150646. doi: 10.1172/JCI150646. PMID: 33974559; PMCID: PMC8245169.
  • Magid-Bernstein J, Beaman CB, Carvalho Poyraz F, Boehme A, Hod E, Francis RO, Elkind MS, Agarwal S, Park S, Claassen J, Connolly ES, Roh D. Impacts of ABO Incompatible Platelet Transfusions on Platelet Recovery and Outcomes after Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Blood. 2021;137(19):2699-2703. PMID: 33649761.
  • Francis RO, D'Alessandro A, Eisenberger A, Soffing M, Yeh R, Coronel E, Sheikh A, Rapido F, La Carpia F, Reisz JA, Gehrke S, Nemkov T, Thomas T, Schwartz J, Divgi C, Kessler DA, Shaz BH, Ginzburg Y, Zimring JC, Spitalnik SL, Hod EA. Donor glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency decreases blood quality for transfusion. J Clin Invest. 2020 May 1;130(5):2270-2285. PMCID: PMC7191001
  • Dei Zotti F, Qiu A, La Carpia F, Moriconi C, Hudson KE. A new murine model of primary autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA). Front Immunol. 2021 Nov 15;12:752330. PMCID: PMC8634489
  • Roh D, Martin A, Sun CH, Eisenberger A, Boehme A, Elkind MSV, Pucci JU, Murthy S, Kamel H, Sansing L, Park S, Agarwal S, Connolly ES, Claassen J, Hod E, Francis RO. ABO Blood Type and Hematoma Expansion After Intracerebral Hemorrhage: An Exploratory Analysis. Neurocrit Care. 2019 Aug;31(1):66-71. PMID: 30547310.
  • Rapido F, Brittenham GM, Bandyopadhyay S, La Carpia F, L'Acqua C, McMahon DJ, Rebbaa A, Wojczyk BS, Netterwald J, Wang H, Schwartz J, Eisenberger A, Soffing M, Yeh R, Divgi C, Ginzburg YZ, Shaz BH, Sheth S, Francis RO, Spitalnik SL, Hod EA. Prolonged red cell storage before transfusion increases extravascular hemolysis. J Clin Invest. 2017 Jan 3; 127(1):375-382. PMID: 27941245; PMCID: PMC5199711