BACKGROUND The oxygen saturation of haemoglobin is reduced in high altitude-living organisms. Increase in the hematocrit is responsible for rise in the hemoglobin concentration so that the oxygen carrying capacity in the hypobaric hypoxic subject is elevated. OBJECTIVES To compare two different high altitude populations, in order to study the relationship between arterial oxygen saturation an...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED. INTRODUCTION The collection of platelets by apheresis is considered as a very great progress in transfusion medicine. A larger yield (total number of collected platelets) is obtained if the donor has a greater number of initial platelets and if the separation is done in a shorter time. One of the parameters is also the efficiency of the platelet collection ...

The relationship between the indicence of cerebral infarction and the hematocrit was studied using 432 consecutive autopsied patients with the average age of 77.1 years. The incidence of cerebral infraction was higher in patients with hematocrit values of more than 46%, (the average in younger adult subjects). The increase in the frequency of cerebral infarction with high hematocrit values was ...

in this study the iron status of pregnant women in two different socio-economic groups and also the effect of multigravidity on iron status of the mothers were investigated. blood samples were with drawn from 165 mothers (91 from farah and 74 from missaghieh maternity hospital) immediately after delivery and hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum iron, total iron-binding capacity (tibc) and total protei...

abstract         background and objective: methamphetamine has strong stimulating effects on various systems of the human body. the aim of this study was to evaluate the hematological and biochemical parameters in methamphetamine addicts and to compare them with healthyindividuals.      methods: this is a retrospective case-control study that was conducted in 1390-91 in ibn sina hospital in shi...

Aim Evaluation the results in patients from the religious community of Jehovah's Witness (JW) undergoing open heart surgery at our institution. Material and methods Between September 2011 and March 2015, 21 patients with a religious background of the JW church underwent open heart surgery at our institution performed by the same surgical team. Mean age was 68.43 ±8.93 years. There were 13 (61...

Objective: Blood is a body fluid that plays role in transporting oxygen, nutrients, metabolic waste, and serves as component of the immune system. Its measurable indices such hematological profile affected by food consumed. This study aimed to examine linseed use complete feed on hematology value sheep blood. Methods: research was conducted at “Mitra Karya Farm” Purworejo Village, Gemolong Dist...

A comparison of 60 blood transfused and 71 nonblood transfused hepatic resection patients was done to evaluate strategies for reducing blood transfusions during hepatic surgery. There were no significant differences between the two groups with regard to preoperative laboratory data, except for prothrombin time and hematocrit value. The mean operative blood loss was 1990 ml and 760 ml in the blo...