Preface; About the Authors; Quality and Compliance; Medical Assessment of Blood Donors, Blood Collection (Autologous and Allogeneic), and Donor Complications; Blood Components: Preparation, Storage, and Characteristics; Carbohydrate Blood Group Antigens; Protein-Based Blood Group Antigens; Pretransfusion Testing and Antibody Identification; Clinical Transfusion Practice and Effective Use of Blood Components; Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells, Cord Blood, and Growth Factors; Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn, and Rh Immune Globulin; Noninfectious Complications of Transfusion; Infectious Complications of Transfusion and Positive Disease Markers in Blood Donors; Coagulation; Hemapheresis; The HLA System; Tissue Banking and Organ Transplantation.