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Heart-Failing Jehovah's Witness Patient Successfully Treated by Minimally Invasive LVAD Implantation without Any Blood Transfusions

open access: yesThe Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeon Reports, 2015
Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation without the use of any blood products is considered as a challenge. We present a 48-year-old patient (175 cm, 75 kg, body mass index 24.5 kg/m2) who was admitted to our clinic due to end-stage heart ...
Jasmin S. Hanke   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transfusão de sangue e hemocomponentes para as Testemunhas de Jeová: revisão de escopo [Blood and blood component transfusion for Jehovah´s Witnesses: a scoping review] [Transfusión de sangre y hemocomponentes para los Testigos de Jehová: revisión del alcance]

open access: yesRevista Enfermagem UERJ, 2022
Objetivo: mapear os estudos que abordam a não transfusão de sangue e hemocomponentes ao paciente Testemunha de Jeová. Método: revisão de escopo, seguindo o método proposto pelo Instituto Joanna Briggs.
Quitéria Pires da Silva Rodrigues   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Jehovah’s Witnesses and Blood Transfusions: An Analysis of the Legal Protections Afforded to Adults and Children in European/English Human Rights Contexts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article considers the degree to which the religious beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses are given consideration in European and English courts. Adults' refusal of blood transfusions, based upon religious belief, is examined within the context of European
Ó Néill, C
core   +1 more source

Successful treatment of severe anemia using erythropoietin in a Jehovah Witness with non-Hodgkin lymphoma

open access: yesHematology 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
doaj   +1 more source

Pseudoaneurysm with risk of imminent rupture in Jehovah’s Witness patient

open access: yesRevista Médica del Hospital General de México, 2022
Emergency surgery for vascular trauma is associated with a high risk of bleeding, which often requires blood transfusions. We present the case of a patient with gunshot injury with pseudoaneurysms of the giant femoral artery with skin dissection and ...
Miguel A. Sierra-Juárez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kokkinakis at the grassroots level [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This contribution considers the impact of Kokkinakis at the grassroots level: to what extent do grassroots level actors know about the case of Kokkinakis and see in it an opportunity to further their own religion-related rights claims? To what extent has
Fokas, Effie
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Liver transplantation in Jehovah’s witnesses: 13 consecutive cases at a single institution

open access: yesBMC Anesthesiology, 2020
Background Jehovah’s Witnesses represent a tremendous clinical challenge when indicated to liver transplantation because they refuse blood transfusion on religious grounds and the procedure is historically associated with potential massive peri-operative
Diego Costanzo   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anesthesia for a Jehovah’s Witness with Critical Anemia from Ruptured Stomach GIST

open access: yesSiriraj Medical Journal, 2020
We report a case of a female Jehovah’s Witness admitted to the hospital with concealed rupture of stomach gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and scheduled for exploratory laparotomy with tumor removal. She was critically anemic and refused to receive all kinds of blood or blood products.
Kasana Raksamani   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Aortic valve replacement and repair of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm in a Jehovah's Witness

open access: yesResearch in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2013
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
doaj   +1 more source

Treatment Experience for a Child with Ewing Sarcoma who Refused to Receive Blood Transfusions for Religious Reasons as a Jehovah’s Witness

open access: yesClinical Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, 2022
Ewing sarcoma is a solid tumor involving the bone and/or surrounding soft tissue, which requires multidisciplinary treatment, primarily through a combination of surgery and chemotherapy and, in some cases, radiation therapy.
Kyu Sik Cho   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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