Ethical challenges of cord blood banks: a scoping review. [PDF]
J Med Life, 2022 Cord blood is a rich source of hematopoietic stem cells used to treat many diseases of blood origin. Thus, storage banks were created to store and provide umbilical cord cells.
Gerdfaramarzi MS +5 more
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Prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in blood banks of seven departments of Bolivia
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1990 Trypanosoma cruzi infection was studied in 1,298 sera samples of blood banks from 7 capital departments of Bolivia, using the immunofluorescence test (IFI) and Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Elisa).
Roxana Carrasco +6 more
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Assessment of Performance of Blood Banks in India: A National Level Cross Sectional Study. [PDF]
Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus, 2021 Asirvatham ES +6 more
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Dangerous shortage of blood banks as an indirect effect of SARS-CoV-2: An obstetrics perspective. [PDF]
Int J Gynaecol Obstet, 2020 To describe the impact of the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic on the frequency of blood donation (BD) in a Latin American hospital and how the social isolation policy implemented during the pandemic jeopardizes the quality of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) care due to ...
Nieto-Calvache AJ +5 more
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Use of a NAT-based assay to improve the surveillance system and prevent transfusion-transmitted malaria in blood banks. [PDF]
Malar J, 2020 Background Malaria can be transmitted by blood transfusion through donations collected from asymptomatic donors. Transfusion-transmitted malaria (TTM) poses a great risk to blood services worldwide. A good screening tool for Plasmodium spp.
Rocha D +16 more
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Banking feces: a new frontier for public blood banks? [PDF]
Transfusion, 2019 Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an effective treatment for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection and is potentially beneficial in other microbiota‐related disorders. The provision of FMT in routine clinical practice requires an extensive
Jørgensen SMD +8 more
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Applied System Innovation, 2022 Health-care-sector-related activities are more accessible and faster as a result of technological development. Technology such as the Internet of Things (IoT) can work with blood bank services to manage and provide healthy blood in emergencies.
Reem D. Ismail +5 more
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The wider perspective: cord blood banks and their future prospects
British Journal of Haematology, 2021 Over the past three decades, cord blood transplantation (CBT) has established its role as an alternative allograft stem cell source. But the future of stored CB units should be to extend their use in updated transplant approaches and develop new CB ...
S. Querol, P. Rubinstein, A. Madrigal
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Strategy to improve malaria surveillance system preventing transfusion-transmitted malaria in blood banks using molecular diagnostic. [PDF]
Malar J, 2018 Malaria can be transmitted by blood transfusion through donations collected from asymptomatic or parasitic donors. The parasites are released into the bloodstream during its life cycle and will therefore be present in donated blood by infected ...
Batista-Dos-Santos SA +7 more
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An overview of blood transfusion services in Palestine
Global Journal of Transfusion Medicine, 2023 Blood transfusion is a vital component of the health-care system, especially considering the ongoing violent Palestinian-Israeli conflict that increases the need to maintain sufficient availability of safe blood for medical emergencies.
Rania Abu Seir +4 more
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