BACKGROUND Fetal bilirubin is routinely measured at our center when taking a pretransfusion blood sample intrauterine transfusions in hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn. However, clinical value fetal assessment not well known, information rarely used. We speculated that there could be role for this measurement predicting need neonatal exchange transfusion. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to ...

a nine month old infant was taken to a rural medical center due to hematemesis and melena. the bleeding persisted in spite of active management with gastric lavage, intravenous cimetidine, antiacid therapy and blood transfusion for four days' duration. the patient was referred to our center for further evaluation and management. on arrival he was pale and ill looking with active bleeding f...

background: bilirubin encephalopathy is a clinical syndrome, associated with bilirubin toxicity in the central nervous system, resulting in chronic and permanent sequelae. it has been estimated that approximately 60% and 80% of term and preterm newborns develop jaundice in the first week of life, respectively. in the present study, we aimed to determine the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality ...

objective to investigate association between nosocomial infection, blood products transfusion and microorganisms responsible in patients who hospitalized at icu (intensive care unit). patients and methods in this prospective study, 217 patients who were admitted to the icu of taleghani hospital between august 2010 and august 2011 were included. nosocomial infections were defined using the conta...

background: various adverse effects of homologous blood transfusion detected particularly in open heart surgery, in which it is frequently used, lead researchers to study on autologous blood use and to evaluate the patient’s blood better. due to the complications of homologous blood transfusion, development of techniques that utilize less transfusion has become inevitable. we aimed to evaluate ...

background and aim: postoperative hemorrhage is a common complication following coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery. warming the patient may be effective on postoperative hemorrhage and blood transfusion. the main objective of this study was to determine the effect of postoperative active warming of the patient on hemorrhage and blood transfusion after off-pump cabg surgery. methods: th...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess current practices in blood management in elective orthopedic surgery in Europe. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS For this 225-center prospective survey, data were collected on 3996 patients. Actual perioperative blood loss was compared to preoperative estimates. Differences in Hb levels and other outcome variables for patients receiving allogeneic ve...

From the Transfusion Medicine Division and Anatomical Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Address correspondence to: Chisa Yamada, MD, Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, SPC 5054, 2F228 UH, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5054; e-mail: [email protected]. Received for publication Sep...

BACKGROUND Allogeneic blood transfusion is associated with transfusion reactions, infection transmission, and postoperative morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to develop and validate an accurate and simple clinical index to stratify cardiac surgery patients according to their blood transfusion needs. METHODS AND RESULTS Data on consecutive adult patients who underwent ca...