Asplenic patients and invasive pneumococcal disease—how bad is it these days?

Medical Errors Disclosure: Is It Good or Bad?

Background: In the treatment and health process, there are a lot of dangers to patients, and the increased number of medical errors is one of the most important circumstances of this process. Objective: The present research purposed to decrease medical errors through disclosure of them in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. M...

[What is a reproduced pterygium these days?].

Figura 1 – Pterigios reproducidos. A) Pterigión evidentemente reproducido. B) Postoperatorio con congestión conjuntival intensa en paciente sintomático esde épocas remotas el pterigión se ha definido como una roliferación fibro vascular de la conjuntiva que invade la córea y ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios en medicina que atan desde 1.000 a. C. En la India, Susruta, considerado como l prim...

Protecting asplenic individuals from fulminant pneumococcal disease.

In this issue of Eurosurveillance, Chironna et al. report on an unfortunate death of an asplenic individual with fulminant pneumococcal sepsis [1]. Whether or not the death of this particular individual could have been avoided with active preventive interventions remains unanswered. It does, however, raise the alert to revisit the preventive guidelines of asplenic patients in general, and need ...

Conjugate and 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide booster vaccination in asplenic patients with thalassemia major: A randomized clinical trial study

Background: Pneumococcal vaccine provides protection against invasive pneumococcal disease in population at risk. This study was conducted to compare the antibody response to 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in patients with thalassemia major. Methods: A randomized cross-over clinical trial was performed on 50 asplenic patients with t...

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