The two major types of blood substitutes are volume expanders, which include solutions such as saline that are used to replace lost plasma volume, and oxygen therapeutics, which are agents designed to replace oxygen normally carried by hemoglobin in red blood cells. Of these two types of blood...
or the amount of hemoglobin inside the red blood cells is low. Hemoglobin is a protein that carries oxygen around the body inside red blood cells, and it is what makes blood look red. Dogs with anemia may have a white or pale tongue, and their gums will be pale as well (unless ...
Anemia develops when the blood does not have sufficient red blood cells (RBCs) or hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the main part of RBCs that binds to oxygen. The cells in the body will not get enough oxygen if a person has abnormal RBCs, too few RBCs, or when the hemoglobin is low or abnorm...
Quality of Life Is Impaired in Anemic MDS Patients, and May Still Remain Poor Even When Hemoglobin Improves 2) The sharp drop in QoL with Hb<9 g/dl (Figure 1, A and C from blue to pink), might lead to a therapeutic paradigm shift, with transfusion ... Y Haring,NC Sagy,S Taha,...
(Soarian®, Cerner) by a data manager through an algorithm for extracting specified data from coded or free-text fields: body mass index (BMI), creatinine blood concentration, eGFR, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and systolic and diastolic blood ...