Treatment of acute leukaemia in adult Jehovah's Witnesses
Since Jehovah’s Witness (JW) patients diagnosed with leukaemia refuse blood transfusions, they are often denied intensive chemotherapy for fear they could not survive myeloablation without blood transfusion support.
Firas El Chaer, K. Ballen
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Trauma and early blood transfusion: the challenging hemorrhage management in Jehovah's Witnesses.
The management of patients, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, who refuse to receive blood transfusions, is often a medical challenge, not only because of the ethical dilemma, but also because it creates a major obstacle to rapid hemorrhage control in a ...
Giacomo Lamarão Lima, Jonas Byk
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We present the first case of a head and neck oncological procedure accomplished in a Jehovah's Witness using the Ultracision Harmonic Scalpel (Ethicon, Cincinnati, OH).
Weerakkody Ruwan +3 more
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Hemangiopericytoma: Conducts and perioperative management of an extent sinonasal tumor in a Jehovah's Witnesses patient - Case report. [PDF]
Amorim Filho FS +4 more
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Tratamiento basado en sangre en pacientes Testigos de Jehová, conflicto ético-médico-legal
Blood-based treatment in Jehovah‘s Witnesses is an important issue regarding the duties and rights of patients and doctors. The legal and ethical framework regarding this conflict was discussed to propose ethical and legal solutions.
Ileana Paola Ramírez Bonilla
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Major abdominal surgery for Jehovah's Witnesses: Challenge while practicing bloodless medicine in a middle income country. [PDF]
Gavrilovska-Brzanov A +6 more
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Surgical Experience of Posterior Fossa Meningioma in a Jehovah's Witnesses Patient. [PDF]
Eom KS.
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Aortic valve replacement and repair of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm in a Jehovah's Witness
The preoperative and surgical management of a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm(LVP) associated with aortic valve replacement in a 76 year old male Jehovah's Witness patient is reported. The satisfactory recovery observed in this patient demonstrates
Andrea Perrotti +2 more
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Correction to: Grieving the Living: The Social Death of Former Jehovah's Witnesses. [PDF]
Ransom HJ, Monk RL, Heim D.
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Between Autonomy and Paternalism: Attitudes of Nursing Personnel Towards Jehovah's Witnesses' Refusal of Blood Transfusion. [PDF]
Domaradzki J, Głodowska K, Jabkowski P.
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