BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Red blood cell alloimmunization is common in patients receiving multiple blood transfusions. Since the probability of repeat transfusion increases with longer life expectancy, it is important to study to which extent alloimmunized patients with a history of transfusion are prone to form alloantibodies after transfusion events. The aim of this study was to retrospectively...

background and objectives: tetanus and diphtheria are vaccine-preventable, infectious diseases with significant morbidity and mortality. immunization by the diphtheria and tetanus toxoid (dt) has been applied in iran for almost 50 years. however, there are very few data about the rate of immunity to these diseases in the adult population. the humoral immunity to tetanus and diphtheria among blo...

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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to verify the performance of blood transfusion committees in transfusion services linked to the public blood bank network of the state of Minas Gerais. METHODS A cross-sectional observational study was conducted between 2007 and 2008 using questionnaires and proficiency tests to evaluate the reporting and investigation of transfusion reactions comparing transfusion ...

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...

Evidence has shown that liver disease caused by hepatitis viruses can be more aggressive and severe in HIV infected subjects. Therefore, the present cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the seroprevalence of HDV infection among HIV/HBV co-infected clients in Shiraz, southwest Iran. In this study, 178 patients co-infected with HBV and HIV individuals were enrolled. The diagnosis of HIV infect...

BACKGROUND Nucleic acid amplification testing is recommended for screening blood donations; however, they are not widely available in developing countries such as Iranian. Confidential unit exclusion (CUE) gives blood donors the opportunity to confidentially indicate whether their blood is or is not suitable for transfusion to others. Hoewever, its effectiveness in improving blood safety has re...