Coagulation tests durinq exchange transfusions

Blood exchange in replacement transfusions; theoretic considerations.

E XCHANGE transfusions have been accepted as the therapy of choice in severe cases of erythroblastosis fetalis. Bessis and Bernard’ and others25 have reported the value of replacement transfusions in patients with acute leukemia, anemia, toxemias, anuria, etc. The technics employed in these transfusions in children and adults have been adequately described 5; the advantages of any one particula...

Subgaleal hematoma and seven exchange transfusions.

A 3 kg baby was delivered by cesarean section after prolonged labor. He had massive subgaleal hematoma. He developed anemia requiring packed cell transfusions and hyperbilirubinemia requiring a total of seven exchange transfusions and highly intensive phototherapy. There were no adverse complications of the hyperbilirubinemia or the exchange transfusion.

Effect of exchange transfusions on plasma digoxin levels.

Host-homograft Tissue Interactions following Exchange Blood Transfusions in Rabbits

Under ordinary conditions musculofascial cross-grafts made between pairs of rabbits of the same strain and species elicited classical host-homograft tissue interactions. When the cross-grafting was done 7 to 10 days after exchange transfusions leading to introduction of about 40 per cent of foreign blood, the classical host-homograft reaction failed to develop. In its stead there was an harmoni...

Painful sickle cell crises precipitated by stopping prophylactic exchange transfusions.

A patient with homozygous sickle cell disease showed a reduced incidence of painful crises as a result of regular exchange transfusion, but on three occasions when transfusion treatment was interrupted, a painful crisis occurred. Onset of painful crisis was associated with raised packed cell volume (PCV) or percentage of haemoglobin S (HbS%), or both. Measurement of whole blood viscosity using ...