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High risk of unexpected late fetal death in monochorionic twins despite intensive ultrasound surveillance: a cohort study. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2005
BACKGROUND: The rationale for fetal surveillance in monochorionic twin pregnancies is timely intervention to prevent the increased fetal/perinatal morbidity and mortality attributed to twin-twin transfusion syndrome and intrauterine growth restriction ...
Olivia Barigye, Lucia Pasquini, Paula Galea, Helen Chambers, Lucy Chappell, Nicholas M Fisk   +5 more
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Prion diseases are efficiently transmitted by blood transfusion in sheep [PDF]

, 2008
The emergence of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, following on from the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic, led to concerns about the potential risk of iatrogenic transmission of disease by blood transfusion and the introduction of costly ...
Foster, J., Hunter, N., Goldmann, W., Chong, A., Gonzalez, L., Siso, S., Houston, F., McCutcheon, S., Jeffrey, M.   +8 more
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DRGs in Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy in Germany [PDF]

, 2012
Patients requiring transfusion medicine and hemotherapy in an inpatient setting are incorporated into the German Diagnosis Related Groups (G-DRG) system in multiple ways.
Ostermann, Helmut, Bauer, Matthäus
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Vacuum-assisted hemorrhage control device versus uterine balloon tamponade for refractory atonic postpartum hemorrhage in a protocol-driven care pathway-A retrospective cohort study. [PDF]

Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand
In this retrospective cohort study, the vacuum‐assisted hemorrhage‐control device for refractory postpartum hemorrhage, implemented within an E‐MOTIVE and ROTEM‐guided protocol, was associated with reduced transfusion requirements, decreased device indwelling time, fewer high‐dependency admissions, and a shorter duration of hospital stay compared to ...
Lee KZX, Por CLS, Lim TY, Dashraath P, Teo WW, King C, Ng SWB, Ramlal H, Shen L, Biswas A, Acharya G, Arulkumaran S, Choolani M, Li SWL.   +13 more
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The quality of stored umbilical cord and adult-donated whole blood in Mombasa, Kenya. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa umbilical cord blood may be a useful source of blood for transfusion. Before clinical trials, evidence is needed that cord blood donations, which vary greatly in volume, can be collected and stored into a fixed volume of
Hassall, O, Maitland, Kathryn, Robert Mwakesi, Douglas Denje, Hassall, Oliver, Thitiri, J, Mandaliya, K, Kathryn Maitland, Fegan, Gregory, Denje, Douglas, Bates, I, Bates, Imelda, Imelda Bates, Maitland, K, Oliver Hassall, Bates, Imelda; id_orcid, Wambua, Kongo, Pole, Lewa, Wambua, K, Mandaliya, Kishor, Mwakesi, Robert, Mwakesi, R, Lewa Pole, Fegan, G, Kongo Wambua, Kishor Mandaliya, Denje, D, Thitiri, Johnstone, Johnstone Thitiri, Pole, L, Gregory Fegan, Greg Fegan   +31 more
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Managing Severe Foetal Anaemia Due to Rh Alloimmunisation: A Report of Two Cases of Successful Intrauterine Blood Transfusion [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Intrauterine Transfusion (IUT) remains a critical intervention in managing severe foetal anaemia, particularly due to Red Blood Cell (RBC) alloimmunisation.
B Megala, A Ashwin, R Krishnamoorthy, R Niranj Rathan, M Sampat Kumar   +4 more
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Red cell transfusion triggers in critically ill patients:time for some new TRICCs? [PDF]

, 2010
Current evidence suggests that critically ill patients tolerate anaemia well and that blood transfusions may increase the risk of adverse outcomes. Dr Sakr and colleagues present a contradictory analysis of a surgical ICU cohort, finding an association ...
Walsh, Timothy S; id_orcid, Timothy S Walsh   +1 more
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Rhesus alloimmunization is correlated to necrotizing enterocolitis and respiratory distress: A tertiary center experience

International Journal of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2023
Background Rh alloimmunization occurs in pregnant women who do not express the red blood cell Rh antigen phenotype but carry a fetus that does. The mainstay of treatment is intrauterine blood transfusion (IUT).
Weam Elsaidawi, Hana Hallak, Abulaziz Alsadoun, Nora Alodah, Saleh Alalaiyan, Abdulaziz Binmanee, Mohammad Bin Jabr, Abdulhakiem Kattan, Eyad Almidani   +8 more
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Intrauterine Blood Transfusion in an HCV and HIV Co-Infected Woman

Maternal-Fetal Medicine, 2021
. Hepatitis C infection is not uncommon in pregnant women. Vertical transmission of the virus from mother to fetus is estimated at 4%-8%, however this transmission rate is significantly higher when the mother is co-infected with HIV.
Jodie C. Charison, Carol E. Schneider, Vanessa Poliquin, Dandan Shi   +3 more
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Medical student education in transfusion medicine: Proposal from the "European and Mediterranean initiative in transfusion medicine".

, 2018
A large body of observations indicate that there is an inconsistent knowledge of Transfusion Medicine among health care professionals as well as inconsistent knowledge in all aspects of the transfusion process, from blood donation to transfusion on the ...
Garraud, O., Laspina, S., Politis, C., de Angelis, V., Brand, A., Ertuğrul Örüç, N., Henschler, R., Haddad, A., Lozano, M., Vuk, T., Tissot, J.D.   +10 more
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