“…Traditionally, DST protocols have been highly variable with respect to the use of whole blood [1,2,5,8, 10,12,13,16–22] versus buffy coat [3,7,9,10,12,18,21], stored [5,8,16,17,20,21] versus fresh [1,2,7,13,21,22] transfusions, actual number of administered DST, presence or absence of various types of immunosuppressive coverage, time interval between DST and transplantation and duration of follow‐up (Tables 2 and 3). A major deficiency of these investigations was the controls considered.…”