Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, New Jersey; Institute for Patient Blood Management and Bloodless Medicine, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, New Jersey; Department of Transfusion Services, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine; Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Duk...

*Corresponding Author: Fariba Seighali MD; Assistant Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences & Blood Transfusion Research Center, High Institute for Research and Education in Transfusion Medicine, Tehran-Iran Mailing Address: Valiasr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Keshavarz Blvd. TehranIran Tel: +98 ...

OBJECTIVE To determine if transfusion affected perioperative and long-term outcome in patients undergoing liver resection for metastatic colorectal cancer. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Blood transfusion produces host immunosuppression and has been postulated to result in adverse outcome for patients undergoing surgical resection of malignancies. METHODS Blood transfusion records and clinical out...

1Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 2National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD; 3University of Florence, Florence, Italy; 4Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy; 5Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Institute of Clinical Transfusion Medicine and Immunogenetics, Ulm; DRK-Blood Donor Service Baden-Württemberg-Hessen, Germany; 6Saarland Univ...

Blood loss during liver transplantation (OLTx) is a common consequence of pre-existing abnormalities of the hemostatic system, portal hypertension with multiple collateral vessels, portal vein thrombosis, previous abdominal surgery, splenomegaly, and poor "functional" recovery of the new liver. The intrinsic coagulopathic features of end stage cirrhosis along with surgical technical difficultie...

a survey of tissue oxygenation differences in intensive care patients with blood transfusion     haghighimoghadamy [1] *, valizadeh ma [2] , feizi a [3]     received: 26 dec, 2011 accepted: 7 mar, 2012     abstract   background & aims : greater than 75% patient that hospitalized in intensive care units has anemia. blood transfusion in icu is not recently and about 40-70% patients in intensive c...

BACKGROUND Patients undergoing cardiac operations often require transfusions of red blood cells, plasma, and platelets. From a statistical point of view, there is a significant collinearity between the components, but they differ in indications for use and composition. This study explores the relationship between the transfusion of different blood components and long-term mortality in patients ...

Before each transfusion of red blood cell concentrate, a final ABO compatibility test is carried out at the patient's bedside on a piece of card and interpreted visually. Despite this ultimate test, transfusion accidents still occur due to group incompatibility, which can be lethal. In order to improve this test, we have developed a specific device based on microarrays for the validation of a s...

A restrictive blood transfusion policy decreases blood utilization and improves outcomes in critically ill adults, but the impact of a restrictive blood transfusion policy in critically ill children is unclear. The study purpose was to compare the effects of a restrictive with a traditional blood transfusion policy in children with major burn injury. A retrospective review of all blood transfus...

background: hepatitis a virus (hav) is a single strand and non-enveloped rna virus. it is usually transmitted by the fe­cal-oral and the blood transfusion routes and causes the hepatitis a disease. clinically, the hepatitis a is usually mild, par­ticularly in children, in whom it is frequently subclinical. the disease is more serious and prolonged in adults. the objective of this study was to f...