High-molecular weight iron dextran: a wolf in sheep's clothing?

Occult Bacteraemia and Aortic Graft Infection: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

We report a case of late-onset aortic prosthetic vascular graft infection. We stress the importance of maintaining a high index of suspicion for any patient presenting with fever on the background of in situ prosthetic material. We present the difficulties in managing these extremely complicated, often life and limb threatening infections and suggest that a multidisciplinary team approach, invo...

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The Potential Dangers of Epidural Anesthesia

A sheep in wolf's clothing.

Most are familiar with the biblical warnings about false prophets presenting as the wolf in sheep's clothing, but in this issue of Blood, Mansoor and colleagues expose a sheep in wolf's clothing by shining a bright light on a newly described benign disease previously pretending to be a very bad malignancy, and doing so quite convincingly.

Safety issues with intravenous iron products in the management of anemia in chronic kidney disease.

Anemia is a very common clinical problem in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in these patients. Erythropoietin is a hormone synthesized that is deficient in the majority of patients with advanced kidney disease, thereby predisposing these patients to anemia. The other cause of anemia is deficiency of iron. Iron deficiency anemia...

Dextran grafted nickel-doped superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: Electrochemical synthesis and characterization

In this paper, polymer grafted nickel-doped iron oxide nanoparticles are fabricated via an easy, one-step and fast electrochemical procedure. In the deposition experiments, iron(II) chloride hexahydrate, iron(III) nitrate nonahydrate, nickel chloride hexahydrate, and dextran were used as the bath composition. Dextran grafted nickel-doped iron oxides (DEX/Ni-SPIOs) were synthesized with applying...