BACKGROUND The need for blood transfusion in cirrhotic liver resection is difficult to determine because of inaccurate estimation of operative blood loss. Moreover, blood transfusion is detrimental to cirrhotic patients. OBJECTIVE To investigate the predictors and limitations of hepatectomy without blood transfusion for cirrhotic patients. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING University ho...

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, 398 ...

J. R. Storry, L. Castilho, G. Daniels, W. A. Flegel, G. Garratty, C. L. Francis, J. M. Moulds, J. J. Moulds, M. L. Olsson, J. Poole, M. E. Reid, P. Rouger, E. van der Schoot, M. Scott, E. Smart, Y. Tani, L.-C. Yu, S. Wendel, C. Westhoff, V. Yahalom & T. Zelinski Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University and Regional Laboratories, Lund, Sweden University of Campinas ⁄ Hemocentro, ...

Blood transfusion has been used to treat the injured since the US Civil War. Now, it saves the lives of tens of thousands of injured patients each year. However, not everyone who receives blood benefits, and some recipients are injured by the transfusion itself. Effective blood therapy in trauma management requires an integration of information from diverse sources, including data relating to t...

background: the blood donation proportion of women to men is 1 to 9 in iran. lack of time, fear of needling and difficult access to donation sites were main reasons for not donating blood in previous studies. the aim of this study was to assess barriers of blood donation by women working in tehran blood transfusion center. methods: to achieve the aim of this study we designed a qualitative rese...

T rauma is the leading cause of death in individuals between the ages of 5 and 45 years worldwide and is expected to become the second leading cause of death by 2020 across all age groups. Nationally, approximately 1 out of every 1000 Americans is hospitalized annually for injuries sustained secondary to trauma, with these patients receiving approximately 10% to 15% of the 14.6 million red bloo...

Research Center of Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization, Khorasan-e Razavi Blood Center, Mashhad, Iran. Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia. Biomedical Department, Women Research Center, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran. Department of Communication and Network, Faculty of Computer Sciences and Information Techno...

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies, and Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; New York Blood Center, New York, NY; Biomedical Imaging Technology Core, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, At...