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Last published 2025
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Gina Drobena

Associate Professor

Also affiliated: Arkansas Children's Hospital (2015); American Red Cross (2017)

Faculty Researcher

Pathology, College of Medicine

3 h-index 9 pubs 18 cited

  • Humans
  • Adult
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells
  • Female
  • Male
  • Plasma Exchange
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Multiple Myeloma
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Antigens, CD34
  • Anesthetics, Local
  • Antidotes
  • Bupivacaine
  • Fat Emulsions, Intravenous
  • Hypertriglyceridemia

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Gina Drobena's research focuses on transfusion medicine and apheresis, particularly concerning hematopoietic progenitor cell collection and its impact on cell therapy laboratory services. Her work also investigates emergent therapeutic interventions, such as plasma exchange, in cases of severe adverse events like local anesthetic systemic toxicity. Drobena has published on the effects of collection goals on apheresis procedures and storage facilities, as well as the use of autologous hematopoietic progenitor cell boosts after CAR-T therapy. She collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Michele Cottler-Fox, Steven R. Post, Mayumi Nakagawa, and Aaron Wyble. Drobena's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 3 with 9 total publications and 18 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 3
  • Publications: 9
  • Citations: 18

Selected Publications

  • Collection of autologous CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) in multiple myeloma: CD34 + cell collection yield in relation to molecular subtype, karyotype, and FISH results (2026)
    PLoS ONE DOI OpenAlex
  • A ROADMAP FOR LARGE-SCALE CELLULAR THERAPY PRODUCT DISPOSAL (2026)
    Cytotherapy DOI OpenAlex
  • Impact of New Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Collection Goals on Apheresis and Cell Therapy Laboratory Services (2025)
    Journal of Clinical Apheresis DOI OpenAlex
  • AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC PROGENITOR CELL (HPC) BOOSTS AFTER CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR T-CELL (CAR-T) THERAPY: IMPACT ON THE CELL THERAPY LABORATORY AND STORAGE FACILITY (2025)
    Cytotherapy DOI OpenAlex
  • Antidote Worse Than the Poison? Emergent Therapeutic Plasma Exchange After Overzealous Intravenous Lipid Emulsion Infusion During Treatment of Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (2025)
    Journal of Clinical Apheresis 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • SMALL CHANGES, BIG SAVINGS: IMPACT OF HEMATOPOIETIC PROGENITOR CELLS APHERESIS COLLECTION GOALS ON THE CELL THERAPY LAB (2024)
    Cytotherapy DOI OpenAlex
  • Plasma failing visual inspection (2017)
    Journal of Clinical Apheresis 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Utility of Fluorescence Cytometric Cross-Matched Platelets in Severely Alloimmunized Patients (2016)
    Blood DOI OpenAlex
  • Flow Cytometric Panel-Reactive Antibody Results and the Ability to Find Transfusion-Compatible Platelets after Antibody-Desensitization for Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant. (2016)
    PubMed 3 citations OpenAlex
  • Heparin‐induced thrombocytopenia: a cautionary tale (2015)
    Transfusion 3 citations DOI OpenAlex

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