About Paul Charest Expertise Any questions that have to do with hematology. Explaining laboratory tests including :coagulation (PT/aPTT), CBC, differential, ESR, and flow cytometry (leukemia/lymphoma)also including the theory behind them. Hemoglobinopathies, leukemia, lymphoma, hemostasis, hematopoiesis, and cellular morphology are a few of the topics that I teach and practice.
I also have experience with immunohematology, otherwise known as blood banking. Feel free to ask about blood types, blood groups, the type and crossmatch, transfusions, antibody identification, DAT, elutions as well as absorptions
I have also worked in a parasitology lab, as well as taught the subject as well. So feel free to ask about helminths (cestodes, trematodes, and nematodes), protozoan parasites, sporozoan etc.
Lastly, I teach a course in clinical mycology where we grow and identify yeasts and moulds.
Experience I have worked in a hematology lab, flow-cytometry lab, blood bank, and microbiology lab. I am also an instructor at Northeastern University part-time
Expert: Paul Charest Date: 7/3/2008 Subject: blood donations
Question I am A- and both my little girls are A+. Am I able to donate to them? I am considering donating immune globulin serum. Once I am injected with rh+ antigens will I no longer be compatible? Does it apply to blood, organs, everything?
Answer Hello Kim,
Yes, you should be able to donate to your girls. Why are you going to be injected with Rh antigens? If you challenge your body with Rh antigens, there is a pretty good chance that your body will produce antibodies in response to antigenic stimulation. If you produce Rh antibodies and donate your plasma to your children, the antibodies will attach to the red cells and cause them to be consumed by the spleen or intravascular destruction by complement. But, this would not affect your ability to donate organs, with the exception of bone marrow.
