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All clinically-relevant blood components transmit prion disease following a single blood transfusion: a sheep model of vCJD [PDF]
, 2011 Variant CJD (vCJD) is an incurable, infectious human disease, likely arising from the consumption of BSE-contaminated meat products. Whilst the epidemic appears to be waning, there is much concern that vCJD infection may be perpetuated in humans by the ...
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Is transfusion in coronary artery surgery a predictor or a cause of reduced long-term survival? [PDF]
, 2020 Background Transfusion is common after coronary bypass surgery. Transfused patients present with higher operative risk and an increased hazard ratio for curtailed long-term survival. There is debate as to whether transfusion itself may further exacerbate
Camilleri, Liberato, Manche, Alexander
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Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2023 Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease spread by an infected vector (infected female Anopheles mosquito) or through transfusion of plasmodium-infected blood to susceptible individuals.
Michael O. Adeniyi +6 more
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Transfusion guidelines: when to transfuse [PDF]
Hematology, 2013 Abstract Transfusion of blood and blood components has been a routine practice for more than half a century. The rationale supporting this practice is that replacement of blood loss should be beneficial for the patient. This assumption has constituted the underpinning of transfusion medicine for many decades. Only over the past 20 years,
Nancy M. Dunbar +1 more
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Transfusion Related Emergencies
Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2016 Audience: This exercise is appropriate for all emergency medicine learners (residents and medical students) and learners from other specialties (internal medicine, family medicine, anesthesia). Introduction: About 85 million red blood cell units are
Megan Boysen Osborn, Min-Ha Tran
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From bench to bar side: Evaluating the red wine storage lesion
Open Life Sciences, 2021 Vitally essential red fluids like packed cells and red wine are seriously influenced in quality when stored over prolonged periods. In the case of red cell concentrates, the resulting storage lesion has particular significance in perioperative medicine ...
Klaschik Sven +4 more
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To Transfuse or Not to Transfuse [PDF]
Circulation, 2007 Preoperative anemia in a patient requiring cardiac surgery generally is not considered an independent risk factor for an unfavorable outcome. Older and sicker patients, especially women, are more likely to be anemic, but these patients often are at higher risk because of other coexisting comorbidities.
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Effect of allogeneic intraoperative blood transfusion on survival in patients treated with radical cystectomy for nonmetastatic bladder cancer: Results from a single high-volume institution [PDF]
, 2015 Transfusion has been related to poor survival after surgery in several cancers. Recently, timing of transfusion has been proposed as crucial in the determination of poor survival expectanies after surgery, in fact, intra- operative but not postoperative ...
Briganti, Alberto +11 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 The thorny devil stick insect (Eurycantha calcarata) is a common invertebrate maintained under human care. Blood (hemolymph) transfusions are a widely used therapeutic tool in other species, but investigation in terrestrial arthropods remains scarce ...
Taylor M. Gregory +5 more
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