Current Topics on Platelet Membrane Antigens

Platelet antigens and antibodies in multitransfused patients

Abstract Background and Objectives Following incompatible blood transfusions, anti-HLA and  anti- HPA antibodies may develop and cause various disorders such as post-transfusion purpura, platelet refractoriness, and thrombocytopenia leading to bleeding. The aim of this study was to investigate platelet antigens and antibodies in multi-transfused patients.   Materials and Methods In this desc...

Editorial Notes on Current Topics

We have much pleasure in announcing that the lis. 100 prize offered by Messrs. Thacker, ?Spink & Co., for the best essay on 'How Plague is spread,' has been awarded to Major S. Browning Smith, I.M.S., Plague Medical Officer, Punjab, for his paper on 'The Spread of Plague' which appeared in our July number. We have to thank Colonel Lukis, Principal of the Medical College, Calcutta, for kindly ju...

Editorial Notes on Current Topics

Editorial Notes on Current Topics

on Spirillum Fever in Bombay, refers to cases which he saw in 1878, but it is to LieutenantColonel H. P. Dimmock, I.M.S., that the honour belongs of first thoroughly recognising and fully describing the disease, in his report on cases which he had seen in the Shikarpur Jail in the cold weather of 1883-84. In 1886 the great fatality of a disease then called " Remittent Fever" in the Central Jail...

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The Report of the Government Maternity Hospital, Madras, is always one of interest. Doubtless equally good work is done in other and similar large institutions in the other presidency towns, but as their reports do not see the light it is difficult to compare their work. There were 1,989 obstetric cases dealt with in the Madras Hospital, and of 1901, deliveries in hospital 1,342 are classed as ...