Diverticular bleeding is a common cause of lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Patients typically present with massive and painless rectal hemorrhage. If bleeding is severe, initial resuscitative measures should include airway maintenance and oxygen supplementation, followed by measurement of hemoglobin and hematocrit levels, and blood typing and crossmatching. Patients may need intravenous flui...

251 4. Daniel-Johnson J, Leitman S, Klein H, Alter H, Lee-Stroka A, Scheinberg P, et al. Probiotic-associated high-titer anti-B in a group A platelet donor as a cause of severe hemolytic transfusion reactions. Transfusion. 2009;49(9):1845-9. 5. Josephson CD, Castillejo MI, Grima K, Hillyer CD. ABO-mismatched platelet transfusions: strategies to mitigate patient exposure to naturally occurring h...

Since platelets possess A and B antigen, mismatched ABO platelets could, theoretically, become activated or hypofunctional by exposure to anti-A or anti-B antibodies found in transfused or recipient plasma. Following normal baseline platelet aggregation to adenosine diphosphate (ADP), platelets from normal donors of different blood types were incubated at 37°C for 10 minutes with 50μl of normal...

 Objectives: To demonstrate the prevalence of ABO blood groups with deep venous thromboembolism in Chinese Han population. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted between January 2010 and March 2015 in The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College in Chaoshan District of Guangdong Province in South China. Eighty nine patients with confirmed diagnosis of deep venous t...

Respiratory waveforms and their derived respiratory rate time-series data can become misaligned from each other when they are collected by vital signs monitors under sub-optimal field conditions. The monitor-provided waveforms and rates can be re-aligned by independently calculating respiratory rates from the waveforms and then aligning them with the monitor-provided rates. However, substantial...

Entity resolution (ER) is an important and common problem in data cleaning. It is about identifying and merging records in a database that represent the same real-world entity. Recently, matching dependencies (MDs) have been introduced and investigated as declarative rules that specify ER. An ER process induced by MDs over a dirty instance leads to multiple clean instances, in general. In this ...

ABO-incompatible live donor renal transplantation is a growing field. To avoid hyperacute rejection, pre-operative ABO antibody titres should be < 8. There are a number of therapeutic measures used to reduce these titres if they are high. This case report describes a patient initially found to have an extremely high anti-A IgG titre (512). The high titre results were concomitant with a positive...