Exchange blood transfusion in severe falciparum malaria: retrospective evaluation of 61 patients treated with, compared to 63 patients treated without, exchange transfusion

Severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia leading to exchange transfusion

  Background :Severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. This study was conducted to investigate the causes of severe hyperbilirubinemia leading to Exchange Transfusion (ET) from March 2009 to March 2011 in Bahrami children hospital, Tehran, Iran in order to establish guidelines to prevent profound jaundice & ET.   Methods : 94 neonates underwent ...

Role of exchange transfusion in patients with severe Falciparum malaria: report of six cases.

Exchange transfusion with red blood cells preserved in adenine clears a child of severe falciparum malaria.

Falciparum malaria may be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The degree of mortality and morbidity usually corresponds to the degree of parasitemia. Quinine and other antimalarial drugs are relatively slow acting and not always effective owing to the presence of drug resistance falciparum. Rapid reduction of the number of circulating parasites may be required. Exchange transfu...

Congenital Thrombocytopenic Purpura Treated by Exchange Transfusion.

The occurrence of thrombocytopenic purpura in babies born to mothers with idiopathic thrombocytopenia is a well recognized though uncommon clinical entity. Robson and Walker (1951) were able to collect from the literature only 19 definite and nine probable examples of this association. The suggestion of Epstein, Lozner, Cobbey and Davidson (1950) that this type of congenital thrombocytopenic pu...

Hydrops foetalis successfully treated by exchange transfusion.

Cases of Rhesus incompatibility resulting in the condition known as hydrops foetalis do badly. Mollison and Cutbush (1954) state 'it is doubtful if infants born with ascites ever survive', and it is difficult to find any record of survival. Heilig, Tudor, Smith and Platou (1948) report two cases of hydrops, one of which survived with a hemiplegia. Van Loghem, van Bolhuis, Soeters and Veeneklaas...