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Managing acute promyelocytic leukemia in patients belonging to the Jehovah’s Witness congregation
Hematology Reports, 2017 Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a hyper-acute leukemia and presents with cytopenias and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Jehovah’s Witnesses with APL offer a unique challenge during induction by refusing transfusion and pose a difficult ...
Anand P. Jillella +7 more
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Beneficence‐Based Obligations and Ethics Consultation in Assisted Dying
Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 312-318, March 2026.ABSTRACT In ethical debates on assisted dying, the principle of respect for autonomy is usually invoked to justify respecting requests for assisted dying. However, there are not only autonomy‐based obligations, but also obligations arising from the principle of beneficence towards persons requesting assisted dying.
Georg Marckmann, Anna Hirsch
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Case Reports in Surgery, 2015 Cardiac surgery for Jehovah’s Witness (JW) patients is considered to be high risk because of patients’ refusal to receive blood transfusion. We report a successful mitral valve replacement for recurrent mitral stenosis after OMC with minimally invasive ...
Yujiro Ito +3 more
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Hematology Reports, 2014 Blood transfusion many times works in a life-saving way when a patient is facing a critical situation. However, some patients, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, may refuse their administration because it opposes to their religion beliefs. Thus, clinicians are
Alexandra Agapidou +4 more
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Intraoperative cell salvage during radical prostatectomy: a safe technique for Jehovahs witnesses
International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2004 Radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) is an operation historically associated with the potential for significant blood loss. Patients who refuse a blood transfusion, such as Jehovahs witnesses, may be only offered radiation therapy as potentially ...
Alan M. Nieder +4 more
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Management of Acute GI Bleeding in Patients Who Refuse Blood or Blood Products [PDF]
, 2013 Background and Significance: The Gastroenterology consult service evaluates patients who are admitted to the hospital with gastrointestinal (GI) tract bleeding.
Weis, Eliza K.
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Pancytopenia due to iron deficiency worsened by iron infusion: a case report [PDF]
, 2007 Introduction Iron deficiency anemia is commonly associated with thrombocytosis, although thrombocytopenia has been reported in occasional patients with iron-deficiency anemia.
Apar Kishor Ganti +16 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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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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