background: new-onset atrial fibrillation (af) after cardiac surgery contributes to increased morbidity, hospital length of stay, and resource utilization. although many aspects of af after cardiac surgery have already been elucidated, the mechanism by which cardiac surgery predisposes patients to af has hitherto remained unknown. recent evidence supports the notion that blood transfusion enhan...

OBJECTIVE To screen out adult patients for HBV and HCV infections visiting Khyber College of Dentistry Peshawar (KCD) for different dental treatments and to identify the associated risk factors. METHOD This cross-sectional study was conducted at Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar in the year 2013. A total of 1540 patients >15 years, visiting KCD for seeking different dental treatments were...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: hepatitis c virus (hcv) is the main causative agent of post-transfusion hepatitis. the virus is distributed worldwide with varying prevalence in different countries, which could easily lead to chronic infections, cirrhosis, and even hepatocellular carcinoma. the aim of this study was to investigate prevalence of hcv infection and its tre...

background: to evaluate the present status of blood utilization and develop practice guidelines in teaching hospitals in northern iran. methods: we retrospectively analyzed the amount of blood prepared and used preoperatively for 11 elective procedures, from march 2010 to march 2011 in teaching hospitals in northern iran. study variables included the crossmatch transfusion ratio, the transfusio...

our previous studies on thalassemia patients, homozygous or compound heterozygous for severe beta thalassemia mutations, has suggested that 5’hs4-lcr and/or xmn1-hbg2 backgrounds, which were linked in our thalassemia patients, are important in determining the blood transfusion dependency of these individuals. while the majority of patients with aa/-- 5’hs4/xmn1 background, were severely depende...

abstract introduction anemia in preterm infants is identified as hemoglobin lower than 7-10g/dl around 1-3 months after birth. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of early subcutaneous administration of erythropoietin on hematopoiesis and weight gain velocity in preterm infants. materials and methods the present study was clinical trial carried out on 42 preterm infants. those whos...

abstract background beta-thalassemia is a common hereditary hemoglobinopathy, which is a reason of microcytic hypochromic anemia. patients with major thalassemia require multiple blood transfusions. this study evaluated growth in thalassemic patient and relationship with ferritin level. materials and methods this is a cross sectional study on seventy patients (36 boys, 34girls) with transfusion...

Background: To evaluate the present status of blood utilization and develop practice guidelines in teaching hospitals in Northern Iran. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the amount of blood prepared and used preoperatively for 11 elective procedures, from March 2010 to March 2011 in teaching hospitals in Northern Iran. Study variables included the crossmatch transfusion ratio, the transfusi...