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The prevalence of bacterial contamination in donated blood in Dar es salaam, Tanzania [PDF]

, 2012
Blood transfusion services are required to provide blood and components which are safe in cost effective way for transfusion into patients who require the blood products.
Malimu, Emmanuel Zephania
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The Impact of Obesity on Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Artificial Organs, EarlyView.
14 100 LVAD patients across 21 studies were analyzed. Findings indicated that obese LVAD recipients had lower short‐term mortality and higher risk of infection, thrombosis and right heart failure. There was no difference in long‐term survival between obese and non‐obese patients.
Hugh Jacobs, Olivia Frost, Arian Arjomandi Rad, Wing Kiu Chou, Sadeq Al‐Saegh, Alina Zubarevich, Alexander Weymann, Arjang Ruhparwar, Lukman Amanov, Peyman Sardari Nia, Antonios Kourliouros, Thanos Athanasiou   +11 more
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Comparison of Phototherapy and Exchange Transfusion Thresholds According to the Turkish Neonatology Society and the 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines in Neonates with Indirect Hyperbilirubinemia

Children
Background: Clinical management of neonatal indirect hyperbilirubinemia is guided by threshold-based recommendations for phototherapy and exchange transfusion.
Deniz Keskindil, Senem Alkan Ozdemir, Şebnem Çalkavur, Tülin Gökmen Yildirim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mathematical Models for Estimating the Risk of vCJD Transmission [PDF]

, 2009
We present two different simple models for vCJD transmission by blood transfusion. Both models indicate that transfusions alone are unlikely to cause more than a few infections, unless the number of primary cases increases.
Anvari, V., Atapour, M., Bourouiba, L., Caudillo Mata, L. A., Collinson, S., Johnson, A., Madras, N., Miasnikof, P., Ramirez Ramirez, L. L., Sanchez-Bravo, I.   +9 more
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Outcomes in Patients Requiring VENO‐Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation After Cardiac Surgery: An Analysis From the PELS‐1 Study

Artificial Organs, EarlyView.
We report an insight from the PELS‐1– a multicentre, international registry focusing on postocardiotomy extracorporeal support use between 2000 and 2020. We focused on 24/2163 (1.1%) patients requiring V‐V ECMO after cardiac surgery. Mortality was high, with 21.7% of patients discharged alive and an overall 1‐year survival probability of 12.5 ...
Pasquale Nardelli, Silvia Mariani, Maria Elena De Piero, Bas C. T. van Bussel, Michele Di Mauro, Ann‐Kristin Schaefer, Diyar Saeed, Matteo Pozzi, Luca Botta, Udo Boeken, Robertas Samalavicius, Karl Bounader, Xiaotong Hou, Jeroen J. H. Bunge, Hergen Buscher, Leonardo Salazar, Bart Meyns, Michael A. Mazzeffi, Marco L. Sacha Matteucci, Sandro Sponga, Kollengode Ramanathan, Claudio Russo, Francesco Formica, Pranya Sakiyalak, Antonio Fiore, Daniele Camboni, Giuseppe Maria Raffa, Rodrigo Diaz, I‐wen Wang, Jae‐Seung Jung, Jan Belohlavek, Vin Pellegrino, Giacomo Bianchi, Matteo Pettinari, Alessandro Barbone, José P. Garcia, Kiran Shekar, Glenn Whitman, Roberto Lorusso, PELS Investigators   +39 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blood transfusion practices in cardiac anaesthesia

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2014
The primary reasons for blood transfusion in cardiac surgery are to correct anaemia and to improve tissue oxygen delivery. However, there is a considerable debate regarding the actual transfusion trigger at which the benefits of transfusion overweight ...
Hanumantha Rao Mangu, Aloka Samantaray, Muralidhar Anakapalli   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

802 Causes and Contributing Factors Leading to Exchange Transfusion: 10 Year Experience at Adnan Menderes University Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

, 2012
Münevver Türkmen, Defne Engür, Dilek Çolak, Seçil Oktay, Aydoğan Aydoğdu, Ayşe Tosun   +5 more
openalex   +1 more source

Does Gastrointestinal Bleeding Increase the Risk of Thromboembolic Events in Patients Supported With CF‐LVADs?

Artificial Organs, EarlyView.
Gastrointestinal bleeding significantly increases thromboembolic risk. Higher risk was also seen in patients aged ≥ 50 years, Black patients, and those with older CF‐LVAD models. ABSTRACT Background Gastrointestinal bleeding is a common complication in continuous‐flow left ventricular assist device (CF‐LVAD) patients. Managing gastrointestinal bleeding
Anh Nguyen, Alexis Shafii, Gabriel Loor, Subhasis Chatterjee, Andrew Civitello, O. Howard Frazier, Kenneth Liao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of Double-volume Exchange Transfusion in Neonates with Hyperbilirubinemia: A Single-center Experience

Global Journal of Transfusion Medicine
Background and Objectives: Double-volume exchange transfusion (DVET) is a life-saving procedure that replaces a neonate’s blood volume twice over with adult donor blood to treat neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and prevent kernicterus.
Kaushik Patra, Smita Mahapatra
doaj   +1 more source

EFFECTS OF P LOADING AND INCREASED ENDOGENOUS PARA THYROID (PTH) DURING “EXCHANGE” TRANSFUSIONS ON URINARY P AND CYCLIC AMP (CAMP) [PDF]

, 1977
Edward F. Donovan, David R. Brown, I‐Wen Chen, J. R. Johnson, Caroline Bobik, Reginald C. Tsang   +5 more
openalex   +1 more source