This study surveyed the views of three groups of men in relation to the situation of semen donation. In all, 97 childless student semen donors, 56 childless non-donor students and 44 mature non-donor fathers completed a questionnaire designed to explore possible motives for donating semen and preferences for involvement with recipients and offspring. Results showed the three groups could be dis...

Blood transfusion is an important mode of transmission of infections to recipients. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among blood donors. For this, a 3.5-year retrospective study, from October 2002 to April 2006 was conducted at the blood transfusion centre of Maharaja Agrasen Medical College, Agroha (Hisar) Haryana. Donors were screened f...

BACKGROUND Blood donation has a marked influence on the body iron stores especially in female blood donors. Iron deficiency anaemia is an important limiting factor for the number of donations in female regular blood donors. AIM OF THE STUDY This study was conducted to evaluate the frequency of iron deficiency and relevant factors in frequent and first time female blood donors at Casablanca bl...

BACKGROUND Adverse events have been reported post blood donation. Donors might refrain from donating again due to such events which lowers the blood supply in collection centers. AIM This study measured the incidence, predictors and severity of adverse events among donors of a single whole blood unit at one of the largest donation centers in Saudi Arabia. METHODS A retrospective cohort was ...

conclusions the present study suggests a beneficial effect of vitamin c adsministration on post-transplant function of the liver from bd liver donors. results no significant differences were observed in mrna expression ratio of il1b and il10 between two groups. despite an acceptable decrease in serum concentration of the inflammatory markers il1b and il10 at time point 2 minus time point 1 (t2-...

This invited review paper, the last in a series of two, presents an overview of the research evidence concerning oocyte donors' views on anonymity and openness. In the period from 2000 to the present, nine such studies that appeared in referred journals were located. This research shows that many donors have been recruited as personal or known donors, and that many of those who were recruited a...

results we included 66 eligible studies. the pooled prevalence of hbsag in blood donors of both emro and middle eastern (e and m) countries was 2.03% (95% confidence interval [ci]: 1.79 – 2.26). in addition, the prevalence rates in the emro countries was 1.99% (95% ci: 1.84 – 2.14) and 1.62% in the middle eastern countries (95% ci: 1.36 – 1.88). the prevalence among blood donors with more than ...

OBJECTIVE To study the seroprevalence and trends of Hepatitis B, C and HIV sero markers in healthy blood donors of Northern Pakistan. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Blood donated by healthy donors from both Armed Forces and civilian population, collected from Jan 1996 to Dec 2000 were tested by Enzyme Linked Immunoassay at Armed Forces Institute of Transfusion Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Demographic data of ...

Background Whole blood donors may experience post-donation symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, or headache after donation, which could influence donor retention. We aimed to examine during 1 week whole investigate characteristics associated with symptoms, and evaluate associations between return. Methods During week, who donated successfully at one of the collection centers in The Netherlands ...