OBJECTIVE To describe the trends in the profile of blood donors from 1995 through 2001 at a large blood center in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, particularly following the initiation in 1998 of marketing strategies aimed at substituting replacement donors with altruistic repeat donors. METHODS Using an information system that had been established at the Pro-Blood Foundation/Blood Center of Sã...

two hundred cases of renal transplantation from living donors are reported from shahid hashemi nejad medical'center in iran. there were 127 male and 73 female patients with 67% in the third and fourth decade of life. all patients received grafts from living donors with 1 14 cases of hla haploidentical, 55 cases of hla identical matches and 24 unrelated donors. one year patient and graft su...

BACKGROUND The profile of blood donors changed dramatically in Brazil over the past 20 years, from remunerated to nonremunerated and then from replacement to community donors. Donor demographic data from three major blood centers establish current donation profiles in Brazil, serving as baseline for future analyses and tracking longitudinal changes in donor characteristics. STUDY DESIGN AND M...

Abstract Background The paper aims to understand the main antecedents related blood donation propensity both donors and non-donors. With our research, we will analyse two perspectives identify similarities differences concentrating on Italian context. Blood is a vital resource that strongly affects every national healthcare system’s efficacy sustainability ability achieve goal of universal cove...

Sir, Hepatitis B infection is a major blood transmittable infection in the country’. To know the prevalence of hepatitis B infection in professional and family/voluntary blood donors, we screened 103 professional blood donors and 2,573 family/voluntary blood donors for RBsAg with Auszyme kit (Abbott Laboratories). Ten professional blood donors and 134 family/voluntary blood donors were HBsAg po...

Mathematical modeling based on a probabilistic approach for making decisions for organ transplantation can be successfully employed in cases when the choice of decisions can affect the results produced. In this study, the minimum probability of success required for organ transplantion in case of multi-donors is determined. The governing equations are constructed in terms of probabilities and so...