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Management of Philadelphia chromosome-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a Jehovah’s Witness using chemotherapy free regimen: A case report and review of literature [PDF]

Leukemia Research Reports
Introduction and Importance: Treatment of Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (pH-positive ALL) in Jehovah’s Witness (JW) using chemotherapy agents, opens an ethically and morally challenging paradigm instead of their religious ...
Muhammad Hassan Raza, Eiraj Khan, Alexis M Desjarlais, Salman Fazal   +3 more
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Immune‐mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in a Jehovah’s Witness – Effectiveness of incorporating extracorporeal immunoadsorption to caplacizumab, steroids and rituximab [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
We report the case of a Jehovah's Witness adolescent patient with immune‐mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura after SARS‐Cov2 infection successfully treated without therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) using caplacizumab, corticosteroids, rituximab,
Teresa Marta Cardesa‐Salzmann, Bernhard Stephan, Arne Simon, Rhoikos Furtwängler, Dominik Schöndorf, Sabine Heine, Eyad Torfah, Margaux Lux, Sonja Meyer, Norbert Graf   +9 more
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Outcomes of cardiac surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients: A review. [PDF]

Perfusion, 2021
OBJECTIVE: To review current literature evidence on outcomes of cardiac surgery in Jehovah’s Witness patients. METHODS: A comprehensive electronic literature search was done from 2010 to 20th August 2020 identifying articles that discussed optimisation ...
Chambault AL, Brown LJ, Mellor S, Harky A.   +3 more
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First Lung Transplantation in Jehovah’s Witness Patient in Latin America [PDF]

Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports, 2020
Lung transplantation is a life-saving alternative for patients with end-stage lung disease. The procedure itself has a high risk of bleeding. Jehovah’s Witness patients refuse to accept blood products due to religious beliefs.
Liliana Fernandez-Trujillo, Fernando Sanabria, Diego F Bautista, Mauricio Velazquez, Indira Cujiño, Eric Tafur, Daniel Arboleda, Valeria Zuñiga-Restrepo, Willian Martinez   +8 more
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Management of Severe Anemia in a Jehovah’s Witness Patient With Lung Abscess Secondary to Malpositioned Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band: A Case Report [PDF]

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports
Jehovah’s Witnesses is a Christian denomination widely recognized for their steadfast refusal of blood transfusions, even when facing severe anemia. We describe a unique case of a 42-year-old Jehovah’s Witness woman with severe iron deficiency anemia ...
Nina Ruan BA, Chloe Shi, Zain Al-Momani MD, Fouad Jaber MD, Ramy Ghaly MD, David Wooldridge MD   +5 more
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Staged open surgery for bicuspid aortic valve regurgitation and coarctation of the aorta in a Jehovah’s witness [PDF]

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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Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy in a Jehovah’s Witness Patient, Case Report [PDF]

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia
This study describes the perioperative management of a 68-year-old Jehovah’s Witness patient with chronic pulmonary thromboembolism, multiple comorbidities, and undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy.
Luz J. Pacheco Leal, Fabio A. Garcia Salamanca, Julián M. Parada, Gianmarco Camelo Pardo, Edgar F. Manrique-Hernandez   +4 more
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Lung resection surgery in Jehovah’s Witness patients: a 20-year single-center experience [PDF]

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2022
Background The paucity of literature on surgical outcomes of Jehovah’s Witness (JW) patients undergoing lung resection suggests some patients with operable lung cancers may be denied resection.
Andy Chao Hsuan Lee, Mark K. Ferguson, Jessica Scott Donington   +2 more
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A dream or reality: Consideration of ‘bloodless’ hematopoietic stem cell transplants for Jehovah’s witness patients [PDF]

Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy
Background: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an important part of treatment for many hematologic conditions. The high-dose chemotherapy used in HSCTs puts patients at risk of significant cytopenias which often necessitate blood product ...
Michael MacNeill, Adrienne Fulford, Deanna Caldwell, Uday Deotare   +3 more
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Blood transfusion in children: the refusal of Jehovah’s Witness parents’ [PDF]

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 ...
Conti Adelaide, Capasso Emanuele, Casella Claudia, Fedeli Piergiorgio, Salzano Francesco Antonio, Policino Fabio, Terracciano Lucia, Delbon Paola   +7 more
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