BACKGROUND Many strategies have been explored to reduce multiple donor exposures in neonates such as use of restrictive transfusion protocols, limiting iatrogenic blood loss, use of recombinant erythropoietin and single donor programs. METHOD In our study we assessed the feasibility of dedicating single donor units with reserving all the components from the same donor for the specified neonat...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate long-term functional donor site morbidity following ulnar forearm flap harvest taking both subjective and objective criteria into consideration. METHODS In this retrospective analysis, 61 patients were evaluated for subjective and objective donor site morbidity 3 to 164 months after flap harvest, and the Disabilities of Arm, Shoulder, and H...

BACKGROUND Although heart transplantation is a successful therapy for patients suffering from end-stage heart failure, the therapeutic is limited by the lack of organs. Donor cardiac arrest is a classic hindrance to heart retrieval as it raises issues on post-transplant outcomes. CASE PRESENTATION The present case reports a successful heart transplantation after prolonged donor cardiac arrest...

Donor spin in silicon have achieved record values of coherence times and single-qubit gate fidelities. The next stage development involves demonstrating high-fidelity two-qubit logic gates, where the most natural coupling is exchange interaction. To aid efficient design scalable donor-based quantum processors, we model two-electron wave function using a full configuration interaction method wit...

introduction: the main purpose of donor selection is not only the donor protection from blood donation complications but also the blood recipient not be expose to blood- transmitted diseases. this study aimed to determine the reason for exemption from donors among blood donor's who refer to ilam blood transfusion organization. materials and methods: this is a retrospective and descriptive ...

We investigated the effect of the expanded criteria donor (ECD) label on (i) recovery of kidneys and (ii) acceptance for transplantation given recovery. An ECD is age > or = 60, or age 50-59 with > or = 2 of 3 specified comorbidities. Using data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients from 1999 to 2005, we modeled recovery rates through linear regression and transplantation probab...

the fabrication of a non-doped red organic light-emitting device (oled) has been developed using naturally occurring curcumin as an emissive layer of oled. in this research, the electroluminescent spectrum (el) of curcumin as a donor-acceptor-donor (d-a-d) chromophore was obtained at wavelength of 612 nm. also, the maximum external quantum efficiencies (eqe) for this device was measured and fou...

In 2006, derivation of the donor risk index (DRI) highlighted the importance of donor factors for successful liver transplantation. Over the last decade, the DRI has served as a useful metric of donor quality and has enhanced our understanding of donor factors and their impact upon recipients with hepatitis C virus, those with low Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score, and individuals ...

Donor leukocytes in therapeutic blood components are implicated in transfusion-related complications ranging from alloimmunization to graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) to viral transmission and reactivation. To further characterize the kinetics of donor leukocyte clearance after allogeneic transfusion, we developed allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays directed at a single-copy ...