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Jehovah’s Witness survives severe favism complications: Advance provisions of treatment and new challenges for the physicians [PDF]

Emergency Care Journal, 2021
The management of an acute hemolytic event in a patient suffering from favism is based on transfusion support to ensure adequate tissue oxygenation. If this measure could not be pursued, in case of severe anemia the risk of death from multiorgan failure ...
Massimo Salvetti, Sara Capellini, Paola Delbon, Francesca Maghin, Maria Lorenza Muiesan, Adelaide Conti   +5 more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Jehovah’s Witness with Acquired Hemophilia A Who Successfully Avoided Blood Transfusions by Receiving Emicizumab [PDF]

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
Introduction: Acquired hemophilia A (AHA) manifests as a significant deficiency in coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) activity caused by the development of autoantibodies against FVIII and results in severe bleeding symptoms that can be life ...
Makoto Saito, Atsushi Yasumoto, Masahiro Ieko, Naoki Miyashita, Emi Yokoyama, Minoru Kanaya, Koh Izumiyama, Akio Mori, Masanobu Morioka, Takeshi Kondo   +9 more
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Cardiac surgery in Jehovah’s Witness children: Clinical characteristics and outcomes from a limited single-center cohort [PDF]

Annals of Pediatric Cardiology
Background: Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs), a religious group with over 9 million members globally, refuse allogeneic blood transfusions on religious grounds.
Nikita Panigrahi, Harohalli Aswathanarayana Venkatesh, Manas Ranjan Mishra, Lalchand H Bandagi, Jyoti Thadlani, Ramesh Reddy, Nijagal Shivanna Devananda   +6 more
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Posterior spine fusion in a Jehovah's Witness patient with severe rigid idiopathic scoliosis – A case report

Brain and Spine, 2022
Introduction: Early onset scoliosis (EOS) represent a challenge for spine surgeons. The selection of the best treatment is complex. Some patients, such as Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse blood transfusions, are at high risk of complication when surgical ...
Michele Da Broi, Andrea Amarossi, Mauro Spina, Torstein R. Meling, Massimo Balsano   +4 more
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