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He never had blood transfusions, his vaccination status was unclear and there was no medication history for SCD, only prophylactic antibiotics. As there were no available HLA identical siblings, he was not eligible for transplant. He was admitted for the first time in 2007 with a sickle cell ...
2d), ensuring that non-RBC objects in PBSs were removed and reducing the rate of false positives from 17.3% (the false positive rate (FPR) in the training dataset) to 1.9% (the product of the validation FPR—11%—of our RBC filtering model FPR and the original FPR in the dataset; ...
However, the results also indicate the need for further progress in the training of some staff groups, particularly nurses and doctors, the development of Hospital Transfusion Teams, the development of protocols for the appropriate use of blood, the provision of information to patients and the use...
Haemodilution on CPB increases the possibility of needing red cell transfusion during or after the proce- dure and this risk is related to the volume of the prime used [30]. There are several techniques to minimise haemodilution, including prime displacement (autolo- gous priming), when the ...
even after undergoing HSCT87. Blood transfusion can have the direct beneficial hemorheological effect of decreasing HbS % and simultaneously improving RBC deformability88. Blood transfusions also increases hemoglobin and therefore lead to improvement in oxygen carrying capacity. On the other hand, this ...
Evidence-based recommendations indicate that automated red cell exchange (auto-RBCX) transfusion is an effective treatment modality (emergency and prophylactic) for patients with sickle cell disease. However, the use of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) in the management of potentially life-threatening ...
Red blood cell volume can be independently determined in vitro using sheep and human red blood cells labeled at different densities of biotin Transfusion, 49 (2009), pp. 1178-1185 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Mohanty et al., 2021 S.S. Mohanty, C.R. Sahoo, R.N. Padhy Targeting ...
In fact even SIGN guideline 54, “Perioperative blood transfusion for elective surgery”, has recently been withdrawn and there are no plans for renewal.10 The standard practice in our unit, which probably reflects the practice in most NHS hospitals in the UK, was that each patient undergoing ...