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Staged open surgery for bicuspid aortic valve regurgitation and coarctation of the aorta in a Jehovah’s witness

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2020
Background Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse allogeneic blood transfusions, which makes cardiovascular surgery challenging. Surgeons must minimize blood and fluid loss within one procedure.
Kohei Sumi, Shigehiko Yoshida, Yoshitaka Okamura, Tomokazu Nakamura   +3 more
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Relational work with distressing voices mirroring experiences of discrimination and marginalisation: Three illustrative cases of an extended form of AVATAR therapy (AV‐EXT)

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background For voice‐hearers from minoritised communities, voices may reflect interpersonal and societal discrimination, including experiences of feeling silenced or ‘voiceless’. AVATAR therapy is a relational approach involving facilitated dialogues between a voice‐hearer and a digital embodiment of their main distressing voice (the avatar ...
Thomas Ward, Hannah Ball, Alice Montague, Nikos Xanidis, Chanelle Myrie, Isobel Murcutt, Edward Oshodi, Clementine Edwards, Amy Hardy, Moya Clancy, Jeffrey McDonnell, Mar Rus‐Calafell, Hamish McLeod, Philippa Garety, Thomas Craig   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do people, socialized and sedimented in their political beliefs, change their convictions in adulthood? Belief change has a long history of research in the social sciences. Yet, in quantitative research, belief change is studied largely through cognitive and behavioral lenses, that, however valuable, struggle to capture how people ...
Marcel van den Haak, Kamile Grusauskaite
wiley   +1 more source

Blood transfusion in jehovah's witnesses, a dilemma in medicine?

Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, 2014
The provision of health services should be carried attached to the scientific and ethical principles of medicine. The negative to accept blood transfusion by Jehovah's Witnesses, when indicated, determines a conflict and a challenge for physicians.
Rafael Gutierrez-Vega, Adriana Cecilia Gallegos-Garza, Germán Fajardo-Dolci   +2 more
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Recombinant Human Erythropoietin Therapy for a Jehovah's Witness Child With Severe Anemia due to Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome [PDF]

Korean Journal of Pediatrics, 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.
Da Eun Woo, Jae Min Lee, Yu Kyung Kim, Yong Hoon Park   +3 more
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The Rights of Religious Minorities [PDF]

, 1986
A travers l'évolution jurisprudentielle, l'auteur retrace la protection accordée au principe fondamental de la liberté de religion. Quel fut l'apport de la Charte canadienne des droits à cet égard ? La religion y fait l'objet de deux dispositions, soit l'
Fairweather, Gordon
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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School

Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
wiley   +1 more source

Les Témoins de Jéhovah : un mouvement religieux aux caractéristiques d’un mouvement social

Études Caribéennes, 2014
This article observes that Jehovah’s Witnesses share similarities with a social movement. The writer uses the descriptions that sociologists such as Alain Touraine and Herbert Blumer give of social movements.
Christophe Zamord
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The effect of perioperative erythropoietin‐stimulating agents and intravenous iron on patient outcomes following solid organ transplantation: A systematic review

Transfusion Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Solid organ transplant is associated with high rates of anaemia and transfusion, but there is little comparative data on interventions such as erythropoietin‐stimulating agents (ESAs) and intravenous (IV) iron. We conducted a systematic review examining the association of ESAs and IV iron with outcomes in adults undergoing solid organ ...
Frank Lee, Quentin Eichbaum, Christine Cserti‐Gazdewich, Darren Mullane, Frederick W. Lombard, Jeremy W. Jacobs, Katerina Pavenski, Marina Englesakis, Alexander Dotto, Terry Cho, Andrés Leonard‐Reixa, Jacqueline Trudeau, Andrew W. Shih, Justyna Bartoszko   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outcomes in cardiac surgery in 500 consecutive Jehovah's Witness patients: 21 year Experience

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2012
Background Refusal of heterogenic blood products can be for religious reasons as in Jehovah's Witnesses or otherwise or as requested by an increasing number of patients.
Vaislic Claude D, Dalibon Nicolas, Ponzio Oliver, Ba Maguette, Jugan Eric, Lagneau Franck, Abbas Philippe, Olliver Yves, Gaillard Didier, Baget Francois, Sportiche Michel, Chedid Antoine, Chaoul Georges, Maribas Philippe, Dupuy Christiane, Robine Bruno, Kasanin Nicolas, Michon Herve, Ruat Jean-Michel, Habis Michel, Bouharaoua Touhami   +20 more
doaj   +1 more source