Prevention of non-hemolytic blood transfusion reaction by cleaning blood platelets.

Thrombopathic thrombocytopenia; successful transfusion of blood platelets.

T HE OPPORTUNITY presented itself recently for the study of a case of chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura characterized by the presence of unusually large agranular platelets. Several features indicated that the platelets were physiologically defective and led to the diagnosis of a thrombopathic or thrombasthenic type of thrombocytopenic purpura. When a blood transfusion from a polycyth...

Leukæmoid Reaction after Blood Transfusion

A Hindu male, aged 45 years, an educationist by profession, had a previous history of duodenal ulcer from 1932-39. One of his molar teeth was extracted in November 1943, followed by persistent bleeding from the gums, stopping after 10 days of intensive treatment with haemostatics. A month later he developed severe burning sensation in the chest and back rendering him very weak and anaemic. Inte...

Autologous Blood Transfusion

بدون شک بی خطرترین روش انتقال خون در بسیاری از بیماران، انتقال خون اتولوگ (جمع آوری و تزریق مجدد خون یا محصولات خونی) به خود بیمار است. انتقال خون اتولوگ اولین بار در سال ۱۹۲۱ عنوان شد، اما تا سال ۱۹۶۰ که بای پس کرونرو سایر جراحی های قلب بصورت معمول درآمد، توجه چندانی بدان نمی شد. امروزه انتقال خون اتولوگ بعلت نگرانی زیاد جامعه در مورد گسترش ایدز، عمومیت دوباره کسب کرده است.

Hot Blood for Transfusion

The importance of warming up the whole blood before transfusion , parti -cularly when large amounts of stored blood is used for patients in shock or under general anesthesia is discussed. Var­ious methods of Warming blood is presn­tcd and the use of high frequency Ele­ctromagnetic field for this purpose and its adv1mtagcs is introduced. 

Graft-versus-host antibody reaction causing a delayed hemolytic anemia after blood transfusion.