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Results of open heart surgery in Jehovah’s Witness patients. Single centre experience
Kardiochirurgia i torakochirurgia polska = Polish journal of cardio-thoracic surgery, 2017 Aim Evaluation the results in patients from the religious community of Jehovah’s Witness (JW) undergoing open heart surgery at our institution. Material and methods Between September 2011 and March 2015, 21 patients with a religious background of the JW ...
A. Juraszek +7 more
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Surgery in Jehovah’s Witnesses [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, 1989 This is a retrospective study of the outcome of surgical procedures in patients who were Jehovah's Witnesses. Over a 75-month period, 58 Jehovah's Witness patients had 78 surgical procedures at the Vancouver General Hospital. Three patients had preexisting anaemia of less than 100 g.L-1 haemoglobin.
D H, Wong, L C, Jenkins
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Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt +7 more
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Should Jehovah’s Witness patients be listed for heart transplantation?
The Egyptian Heart Journal, 2014 This best evidence topic in Cardiac Surgery was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was: for [Jehovah’s Witness patients with end-stage heart failure] can these patients undergo a [heart transplantation] without an ...
Elsayed Elmistekawy +2 more
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Reproductive, Female and Child Health, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Introduction In Cameroon, 24% of adolescents have already begun childbearing, and 16.2% experience a subsequent pregnancy within 7–17 months after their first birth. Nearly 80% of these pregnancies are unplanned, highlighting the critical need for effective contraceptive use among adolescents.
Véronique Sophie Mboua Batoum +10 more
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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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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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Equal Societies, Autonomous Lives: Reconciling social equality and relational autonomy
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Hugo Cossette‐Lefebvre
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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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