Over the last few years, quality system requirements have been introduced for blood components. The necessary compliance with standard productions will have a considerable impact on Blood Banks. The introduction of automated methods is the most satisfactory means to meet these requirements for blood component preparation. A new device has been developed to automate the fractionation of blood in...

Blood smear analysis has remained a crucial diagnostic tool for pathologists despite the advent of automatic analyzers such as flow cytometers and impedance counters. Though these current methods have proven to be indispensible tools for physicians and researchers alike, they provide limited information on the detailed morphology of individual cells, and merely alert the operator to manually ex...

INTRODUCTION Determination of ABO and Rh blood group types are clinically important for various purposes including transfusion. There is a wide regional, racial, ethnic variability among these groups. We aim to determine the patterns in patients attending tertiary care center Western Nepal. MATERIAL AND METHODS This hospital-based cross-sectional study involved 600 visiting Universal College Me...

OBJECTIVE To assess the Rhesus (Rh) and Kell (K) phenotype of voluntary blood donors and lay foundation of a data bank of voluntary blood donors. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Blood Bank, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, in the year 2014. METHODOLOGY Voluntary blood donors were inducted after taking written informed consent. Three -5cc of EDTA a...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to determine blood groups and Rhesus factor from dentin and pulp using absorption-elution (AE) technique in different time periods at 0, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months, respectively. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 150 cases, 30 patients each at 0, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months were included in the study. The samples consisted of males and females with age ranging 13-60 yea...