AABB: American Association of Blood Banks
AACP: American Academy of Cardiovascular Perfusion
ABLES: Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance
ABMTR: Autologus Blood & Marrow Transplant Registry
aHUS: atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome
APTT: Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time
ARFY: Atherosclerosis Risk-Factors in Female Youngsters
ARMY: Atherosclerosis Risk-Factors in Male Youngsters
BFI: Blood Flow Imaging
BFI: blood flow index
BP: Blood Pressure
BPMS: Blood Pressure Measuring System
BVI: Blood Volume Index
CBC: Complete Blood Count
CBF: cerebral blood flow
CBR: Centre for Blood Research
CBS: Canadian Blood Services
CCAIMT: Common Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness
CFU-GEMM: Colony Forming Unit - Granulocyte-Erythroid-Makrophage-Megakaryocyte
CFU-MK: Colony Forming Unit - MegaKaryocytic
CHARMS: Canadian Hemophilia Assessment and Resource Management Information System
cpb: cardiopulmonary bypass
DIC: Disseminated intravascular coagulation
DKUHD: Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases
DRAA: Dialysis-Related Amyloid Arthropathy
DVT: Deep Vein Thrombosis
EBMT: European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
EHA: European Hematology Association
EHC: European Haemophilia Consortium
ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate
FAST: Fukuoka Atherosclerosis Trial
HFA: Haemophilia Foundation Australia
HPPS: Human Plasma Product Services
HPS: hemophagocytic syndrome
HUS: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
IMT: Intima Media Thickness
LEE: locus of enterocyte effacement
MCH: mean corpuscular haemoglobin
mchc: mean cell hemoglobin concentration
MCHC: mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration