conclusions: hydroxyurea can be safely used in some transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia patients to decrease their transfusion needs. background: β-thalassemia is an inherited hemoglobin disorder caused by defective synthesis of ß-globin chains. hemoglobin (hb) f induction is a possible therapeutic approach which can partially compensate for α and non-α globin chains imbalance. objectives: we a...

transfusion of blood and its components/derivatives is a life saving medical intervention. however, this life saving procedure depends mainly on the availability of sufficient blood and its components in national health sector. therefore the overall safety of transfusion medicines including the safety of blood and its available components and the appropriate use of these components would direct...

  Background: Increased costs and mortality associated with inappropriate blood transfusions have led to investigations about blood request and blood transfusion techniques. We investigated the transfusion status in patients who underwent orthopedic surgery in Poursina Hospital (Rasht, Iran) to optimizing blood usage and determine if a scheduled transfusion program for every orthopedic surgery ...

The importance of warming up the whole blood before transfusion , parti -cularly when large amounts of stored blood is used for patients in shock or under general anesthesia is discussed. Var­ious methods of Warming blood is presn­tcd and the use of high frequency Ele­ctromagnetic field for this purpose and its adv1mtagcs is introduced. 

the clinical significance of abo and rhesus blood group systems has been well documented. the objective of this study was to determine the frequency of abo and rhesus blood groups in blood donors in lahore, pakistan, with a view to generate data with multipurpose future practicalities in the field of medicine. blood groups of 3000 blood donors were determined by commercially available standard ...

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...

  Background: Reservation of blood leads to blood wastage if the blood is not transfused. Therefore, in some centers only blood type and screen are evaluated. In this study, the efficacy of a blood crossmatch-to-transfusion ratio was measured and then compared with the standard levels. Methods: This prospective study was conducted during one year in a university hospital. During this period, 39...

background: bilirubin encephalopathy is a clinical syndrome, associated with bilirubin toxicity in the central nervous system, resulting in chronic and permanent sequelae. it has been estimated that approximately 60% and 80% of term and preterm newborns develop jaundice in the first week of life, respectively. in the present study, we aimed to determine the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality ...

objective to investigate association between nosocomial infection, blood products transfusion and microorganisms responsible in patients who hospitalized at icu (intensive care unit). patients and methods in this prospective study, 217 patients who were admitted to the icu of taleghani hospital between august 2010 and august 2011 were included. nosocomial infections were defined using the conta...