, 2022 The religious movement that would grow into the Jehovah's Witnesses first coalesced in Pittsburgh in the 1870s around a young founder named Charles Taze Russell. Though previously disillusioned with religion, Russell was strongly influenced by Adventist ideas of Jesus' imminent return.
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Lung transplantation in a Jehovah's witness. Case report in a twinning procedure [PDF]
, 2003 Jehovah's Witnesses, patients who refuse blood transfusions, are generally not considered as candidates for lung transplantation owing to the frequent requirement for transfusions.
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Thrombolytic therapy for critical limb ischemia in a Jehovah's Witness with severe anemia [PDF]
, 2017 A patient's refusal to receive blood products can pose both clinical and ethical challenges to the surgeon. In this report, we review the case of a Jehovah's Witness presenting with critical lower limb ischemia and severe anemia for whom the decision of ...
Jeremy D. Kauffman, MD +2 more
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HLA Antibody-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation Between Jehovah's Witnesses:A Case Report [PDF]
, 2013 Desensitization before HLA antibody-incompatible (HLAi) transplantation involves nonspecific apheresis of HLA antibodies. Clotting factors and albumin are also removed and have to be replaced. This makes transplantation difficult because it increases the
Fossati, N. +8 more
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A single-institution experience of performing bloodless transplant in Jehovah’s Witness patients
Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy, 2019 Objective/Background: Autologous stem cell transplant has been shown to prolong survival in multiple myeloma (MM). A common complication of the pre-transplant conditioning chemotherapy is severe multi-lineage cytopenias, resulting in significant ...
Alexander Coltoff +3 more
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Preoperative left hepatic lobe devascularisation to minimize perioperative bleeding in a Jehovah’s Witness undergoing left hepatectomy [PDF]
, 2017 INTRODUCTION: Major liver resection in a Jehovah's Witness presents unique clinical challenges requiring multimodal blood minimization strategies to reduce perioperative complications.
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Transcultural nursing in perioperative patient care.
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017 Jehovah's Witnesses is a religious association, who refuses blood transfusions even in life-threatening conditions. There are several alternative methods, implemented for use with patients that religion, whose task is to reduce the risk of bleeding and ...
Anna Kostka +5 more
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Jehovah's Witnesses newspaper clippings, The Herald Journal, 1960 [PDF]
, 1960 Newspaper clippings about the Jehovah's Witnesses in Logan, Utah. 'Logan Man has Convention Role' is about Jehovah's Witness minister Robert Stitch. 'About Town' details Lutheran worship services.
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Recombinant Human Erythropoietin Therapy for a Jehovah's Witness Child With Severe Anemia due to Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome [PDF]
, 2016 Patients with hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) can rapidly develop profound anemia as the disease progresses, as a consequence of red blood cell (RBC) hemolysis and inadequate erythropoietin synthesis.
Yu Kyung Kim +3 more
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Blood transfusion in children: the refusal of Jehovah’s Witness parents’
Open Medicine, 2018 In Italy, both parents have parental responsibility; as a general principle they have the power to give or withhold consent to medical procedures on their children, including consent for blood transfusion; however these rights are not absolute and exist ...
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