AABB: American Association of Blood Banks
AACE: American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
AAFA: Aplastic Anemia Foundation of America
AAPB: Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
ABLES: Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance
ABMTR: Autologus Blood & Marrow Transplant Registry
ADA: American Diabetes Association
aHUS: atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome
APLS: Antiphospholipid syndrome
APS: American Physiological Society
APTT: Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time
ARB: angiotensin receptor blocker
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
BUN: blood urea nitrogen
BVI: Blood Volume Index
CAPS: catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome
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
CRI: chronic renal insufficiency
CSF: cerebrospinal fluid
DDD: dense deposit disease
DIC: Disseminated intravascular coagulation
DKUHD: Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases
DME: diabetic macular edema
DRAA: Dialysis-Related Amyloid Arthropathy
DVT: Deep Vein Thrombosis
EBMT: European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
ECF: extracellular fluid
EHA: European Hematology Association