This issue of “Postępy Nauk Medycznych” (“Progress in Medicin”) has been prepared by the Department of Immunohaematology in Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education and cooperating with us authors from the Clinical Department of Pediatrics and Department of Pediatrics in our Medical Centre, the Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion and Child Health Centre. It is devoted to problems of immunohaematology, which develop strongly in our department. They are leading themes of the research works, scientific own projects of doctoral students and teaching activities undertaken within the prescribed five different training courses.

In the review publications the new team of the Department presents the base of our study. First it concern the use of flow cytometry for the immunological evaluation of red blood cells. We introduced study of feto-maternal haemorrhage in cooperation with the Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the study of changes in surface markers associated with the destruction of erythrocytes (“The use of flow cytometry in the assessment red blood cells”).