Iron deficiency is a major complication of regular blood donation as a result of regular iron loss from each donated blood unit. Ninety-two regular blood donors and 95 first time blood donors attending a hospital-based blood transfusion centre were assessed as to their haematological and iron status by blood counts and serum ferritin levels as an indicator of iron stores. All donors had passed ...

Background and Aims: Hemophilia is a rare autoimmune disorder caused by autoantibodies directed in the majority of the cases against clotting factor VIII (FVIII). FVIII is extracted from human plasma or engineered from mammalian cell cultures using recombinant DNA technology. In Iran, most of the used FVIII is prepared from human plasma in Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization. It was seen imp...

objective: occult hepatitis b infection is a form of hepatitis in which despite of absence of detectable hbsag, hbv-dna is present in peripheral blood of patients. this clinical form of b hepatitis creates some problems for the iranian blood transfusion services. therefore, the aim of this study was the evaluation of status of occult hepatitis b infection in the rafsanjanese blood donors. mate...

the prevalence of hepatitis c and its related factors among blood donors of kerman blood center   delavari m.1,2(md), tabatabaie s.m.1,2(md), sheikh bardsiri h.1,2(bs),   maarefdust z.1,2(as), zandieh t.1(phd) 1 iranian blood transfusion organization-research center   2 kerman regional blood transfusion center

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Selection of healthy blood donors is essential to ensure blood safety. A confidential self-exclusion (CSE) system was designed so that high-risk donors could confidentially exclude their blood from use in transfusions. This study aimed to compare the demographic characteristics and the results from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B surface (HBS) and hepatitis...

Donating blood is an essential practice that can help save lives. Effective strategies are necessary to attract and keep donors meet the demand for safe blood. To evaluate experience of voluntary in Zanzibar, a survey was conducted, purposive sampling used select participants who had donated multiple times. The study involved interviewing 15 repeat donors, data collected analyzed thematically. ...

background: in spite of available, and sensitive screening assay for detection of hepatitis b virus surface antigen (hbsag), occasional cases of post-transfusion hepatitis b virus infection are still observed. the aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of positive anti hepatitis b core (anti-hbc) and presence of hbv-dna in serum sample of healthy blood donors negative for both hb...

Background: In 1997, a novel DNA virus was isolated from the serum of a patient in Japan, and it was named TT virus (TTV). As the virus is replicated in liver and has the ability to induce apoptosis in hepatocytes (Hepatocellular carcinoma cells) it is hypothesized that TTV is an opportunistic virus and in certain conditions causes liver damage. In this study the frequency of infection with TTV...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To study the seroprevalence of anti HCV antibodies among Nepalese blood donors in relation to their age, sex, type of donation and times of donation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS), Central Blood Transfusion Service (CBTS), Kathmandu, from December 1, 2006 to September 1, 2007. A total of 33,255 blood don...

BACKGROUND Data on blood donor status obtained from general surveys and health interview surveys have been widely used. However, the integrity of data on self-reported blood donor status from surveys may be threatened by sampling and non-sampling error. Our study aimed to compare self-reported blood donors (including one-time as well as regular donors) from the Swiss Health Survey 2012 (SHS) wi...