It is a beautifully produced book, has great clarity and has most of the recent advances in its latest edition. Highly respected, long-established book that has become the “bible” in transfusion medicine.
This book provides a sound basis for understanding modern transfusion medicine. It is a definitive reference source for any clinician involved with patients requiring transfusion and for staff working in transfusion services, immunohaematology laboratories and blood banks. It also gives advice on management issues for the clinician.
The latest edition is completely revised and updated to reflect the rapid pace of changes in transfusion medicine. Transfusion medicine now involves mobilization and selection of haematopoietic progenitor cells for transplantation, storage of umbilical cord blood, and manipulation of mononuclear cells by culture and gene insertion to offer potential therapies for a wide range of diseases. The edition has been revised to reflect this progress. Enormous advances in protein structure determination have occurred since the last edition and these are reflected in the revised edition. Mollison's textbook has traditionally been used as a source of ‘classic’ studies and information not available elsewhere, and the authors have been careful to retain this information in this edition.
In conclusion it is recommended that no hospital transfusion laboratory should be without its “Mollison” and most haematologists should possess their own copy.