... was to detect the subjective increase in physician’s awareness towards perioperative anaemia, patient’s blood resource, and transfusion after the implementation of PBM in German hospitals. Material and Methods: A survey among 56 hospitals from the German PBM Network group was conducted from October 27...

...) as the standard approach. The prognostic role of platelet count and the clinical indication of preoperative platelet transfusion are not entirely clear. Methods: We designed a study to explore the prognostic impact of surgical methods, platelet count, and platelet transfusion in a large, single-institute, long...

...Susana Gómez-Ramírez; Elvira Bisbe; Aryeh Shander; Donat R. Spahn; Manuel Muñoz Preoperative anemia affects 30–40% of patients undergoing major surgery and is an independent risk factor for perioperative blood transfusion, morbidity, and mortality. Absolute or functional iron deficiency is its...

... apart). Of note, the Italian guidelines indicate that serum ferritin level measurement may be more reliable if restricted to the early transfusional period (low iron burden) in patients with a known iron intake history. The Canadian guidelines also mention that the uncertainty in serum ferritin level...

... was increased in 3 patients with transfusional iron overload (2 patients with SCD and 1 with myelodysplastic syndrome) [ 78 ]. In contrast, no correlation was found between hepcidin and liver iron in thalassemia major patients, and an inverse correlation was noted with NTBI [ 79 ]. In congenital chronic anemia...

... by the mean of the pre- and post-transfusional values. (2) The transfusion requirement, expressed as milliliters blood transfused in the year per kilo­ gram of mean body weight at the middle of the year [4]. (3) Actual blood volume as calculated indirect­ ly from the extent of the increase in Hb after...

... multiply transfused patients, possibly because of increased urinary iron excretion [17, 18]. It has fur­ ther been suggested that the use of exchange transfu­ sion rather than simple RBC transfusion should result Transfusion and Exchange Transfusion in Sickle Cell Anaemias 199 in less transfusional...

.... Cytotoxicity Lymphocytes Monoclonal antibodies NK cells Thalassemia Transfusion T subpopulations Acta haemat. 71: 263-269(1984) © S . Karger AG. Basel 0 0 0 1- 5 7 9 2 /8 4 /0 7 14-0263 S 2.75/0 Natural Killer Cell Activity and T Subpopulations in Thalassemia major A. Neri, M. Brugiatelli, P. Iacopino...

...Yu Ri Kim; Jin Seok Kim; June-Won Cheong; Jae Woo Song; Yoo Hong Min Transfusion-associated iron overload could be an important risk factor in myeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. However, few studies have evaluated the effect of iron overload in reduced-intensity stem cell...

...Per Möller; Per-Ola Andersson; Ann-Christine Andersson; Hans Wadenvik Studies performed in rabbit and mouse models and in a limited number of human subjects, show that transfused platelets bind thrombopoietin (TPO) and decrease its concentration in the circulation. The aim of the present study...

... approaches for homozygous β-thalassemia entail blood transfusions and iron chelation therapy with deferoxamine or deferiprone for preventing tissue hemosiderosis. Recently, much effort has focused on various inducers of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) such as recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO), especially in β...