Toward an understanding of transfusion‐related acute lung injury: statement of a consensus panel

From Kleinman Biomedical Research, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; The Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Elora, Ontario; Canada; McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; the Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; the Quebec Public Health Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Address reprint requests to: Morris Blajchman, MD, Depts. of Pathology and Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main St., West, HSC 2N34, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3ZS; e-mail: blajchma@mcmaster.ca. Dr Meade is a Peter Lougheed Scholar of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. This Consensus Conference was funded by Canadian Blood Services and Hema-Quebec, with additional support from the International Society of Blood Transfusion’s Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) subcommittee. Received for publication August 22, 2004; revision received August 26, 2004, and accepted August 26, 2004. TRANSFUSION 2004;44:1774-1789. R E V I E W