transfusion of blood products from an infected person with aids, is meant to infect recipient. blood products such as whole blood, red blood cells, platelets, plasma, frozen blood precipitate, factor viii, factor ix, can be infected with hiv. transmissions from blood factors can be seen in plasma from thousands of donors that were collected in a container and were used to treat hemophilia. bloo...

Fat embolism syndrome (FES) is a rare complication of sickle-cell disease (SCD) associated with extremely high mortality rates. It affects predominantly non-SS patients and those with previously mild disease. Rapid institution of exchange transfusion with an aim to reduce HbS to very low levels as soon as FES is suspected can be life-saving.

OBJECTIVE Newborns who suffer from jaundice and/or receive phototherapy (PT) are at a higher risk of developing asthma. In this study we aimed to investigate the relationship between bilirubin and peripheral eosinophil counts in newborns with severe hyperbilirubinemia needing PT. METHODS In this study, a retrospective analysis was performed on 306 newborns with severe hyperbilirubinemia with ...

In the past, reluctance to determine the serum magnesium level in the newborn infant has been due in part to the relative unreliability of methods hitherto employed (Wacker and Vallee, 1958), and the need for large amounts of blood, particularly where repeat determinations are proposed. In 1964 Rice and Lapara described a rapid, accurate ultramicro method for the determination of ionic magnesiu...

A prospective study to evaluate efficacy and safety of partial exchange blood transfusion (PEBT) with normal saline or plasma was conducted in 30 symptomatic polycythemic newborns. Babies were randomly assigned to receive PEBT either with normal saline or plasma. Both groups were comparable in terms of birth weight, gestational age, preexchange hematocrit and viscosity. A significant fall in he...

OBJECTIVE To determine the role of intravenous administration of human albumin prior to blood exchange in term neonates for reduction of total serum bilirubin (TSB). DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Neonatal Unit of Nemazee Hospital, affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, southern Iran. PATIENTS Fifty out-born term neonates with gestation age <37 weeks, birth we...

UNLABELLED The aim of this paper is to critically review neonatal polycythaemia (NP) literature, in terms of definition, diagnosis and management. We reviewed all Medline articles on NP up to December 2009. (i) The textbook definition of NP [venous haematocrit (HCT) > 65%] is empirical and not based on statistical definition, symptoms or complications. (ii) Measurement of viscosity is not bette...

Two preterm infants with peak serum bilirubin concentrations of 270 mumol/l and 200 mumol/l, respectively showed improvement in the wave peak latencies of the auditory and visual evoked potentials after exchange transfusion. The implications of this observation and the use of evoked potential recording in neonatal jaundice are discussed.