the systemic complications of blood donation are the first reasons why patients fail to return for further blood donation. this study was designed to determine the frequency of these complications and their associated risk factors among blood donors in tehran. also, we aimed to provide suitable methods to decrease the frequency of these adverse events, thereby eliminating the most important cau...

BACKGROUND Preoperative autologous blood donation is a standard of care for elective surgical procedures requiring transfusion. The authors evaluated the efficacy of alternative blood-conservation strategies including preoperative recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) therapy and acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) in radical retropubic prostatectomy patients. METHODS Seventy-nine patie...

BACKGROUND First-person reports of oocyte donors, years after their donation, can give valuable information about medical complications of oocyte donation, as well as changes potentially required in procedures and priorities of US-based in vitro fertilization (IVF) centers. This paper reports findings from an online survey of former oocyte donors. METHODS The instrument was an author-construc...

Blood transfusion is an essential part of modern health care, and one of the key points of this practice is to ensure the blood transfusion safety. Plasma used for transfusion can be obtained from centrifugation of whole blood or by apheresis procedures. After a blood donation, the plasma is processed using different methods (solvent-detergent, methylene blue . . .) in order to decrease the inf...

CONTEXT Families' refusal to consent to solid organ donation is a major contributor to the organ deficit in the United States. Previous research has identified organ procurement coordinators as best able to obtain consent from families; however, few studies have examined the effects of coordinator training programs on consent rates. OBJECTIVE To test the effects of the Communicating Effective...

Uterus transplantation (UTx) offers women with absolute uterine factor infertility the option to gestate and birth their own biologically related child. The first following living donation UTx happened in 2014. deceased December 2017, further successes since. Interest is increasing. authors established a database track clinical trials outcomes. Utilising this existing literature, article review...

The lifesaving processes of organ donation and transplantation in neonatology and pediatrics carry important ethical considerations. The medical community must balance the principles of autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice to ensure the best interest of the potential donor and to provide equitable benefit to society. Accordingly, the US Organ Procurement and Transplantation Netwo...

BACKGROUND This single-blind randomized study in general surgery evaluated the efficacy of perflubron emulsion (PFC) as an artificial oxygen carrier being used to augment preoperative acute normovolemic hemodilution to reduce and avoid transfusion of both allogeneic erythrocytes and erythrocytes from preoperative autologous donation compared with standard of care. METHODS Subjects (N = 492) w...

background hospital personnel of services related to donation and transplantation process play a fundamental role in the development of transplantation. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the attitude toward living liver donation (lld) among hospital personnel from services related to donation and transplantation in hospital centers in spain and latin america. materials and met...