background: many of the multiple traumatized patients who refer to the hospital need transfusion. transfusion-related acute lung injury (trali) is a serious clinical syndrome associated with the transfusion of plasma-containing blood components. in the article, we present a case of trali following transfusion of packed red blood cells case presentation: a 24 year old male referred to shahid beh...

Background. Severe hyperbilirubinaemia requiring exchange transfusion has become less common in recent years; however, kernicterus still occurs. The aim of this study was to review babies undergoing exchange transfusion for severe hyperbilirubinaemia in a Johannesburg hospital. Methodology. This was a retrospective review of babies who required exchange transfusion in both the neonatal and the ...

haemovigilance is a system with standard program to cover the entire transfusion chain, monitor, evaluate and analyse the data to improve patients’ safety. we report the implemented haemovigilance system in hospitals and transfusion reactions (tr) in iran. methods and materials: this was a prospective descriptive study. the national reporting system for transfusion incidents was introduced in j...

computational tools are reliable alternatives to laborious work in chimeric protein design. in this study, a chimeric antigen was designed using computational techniques for simultaneous detection of anti-htlv-i and anti-hbv in infected sera. databases were searched for amino acid sequences of hbv/hlv-i diagnostic antigens. the immunodominant fragments were selected based on propensity scales. ...

background: new-onset atrial fibrillation (af) after cardiac surgery contributes to increased morbidity, hospital length of stay, and resource utilization. although many aspects of af after cardiac surgery have already been elucidated, the mechanism by which cardiac surgery predisposes patients to af has hitherto remained unknown. recent evidence supports the notion that blood transfusion enhan...

Rabbits were immunized to two antigens and 18-55 days later exchange transfusion was performed using blood of rabbits immunized to one antigen only. By this means, serum antibody levels to one antigen were reduced 50-84% while maintaining serum antibody levels to the second antigen. After exchange, serum antibody levels of the removed antibody rose rapidly for 24-48 hr and then more slowly, rea...

Methaemogloninemia is a rare condition characterized by elevated levels of methemoglobin levels. We report a case of a young lady who took thinner (a solvent used in paint). Methemoglobinemia was diagnosed on the basis of saturation gap and elevated methemoglobin levels. She recovered after exchange transfusion, which was done due to non-availability of parenteral methylene blue.

BACKGROUND In Myanmar, approximately half of all neonatal hospital admissions are for hyperbilirubinaemia, and tertiary facilities report high rates of Exchange Transfusion (ET). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot program in reducing ET, separately of inborn and outborn neonates. METHODS The study was conducted in the Neonatal Care Units of four national tert...

The efficacy of exchange transfusion as an adjunct treatment for severe falciparum malaria is controversial. No sufficiently powered, randomized, controlled study has been reported. We analyzed 8 studies that compared survival rates associated with adjunct exchange transfusion with those associated with antimalarial chemotherapy alone. Exchange transfusion was not associated with a higher survi...

Septicemia in the young infant, particularly the newborn, has a high mortality despite the use of potent anti-microbial agents. Case reports and studies reporting the successful use of Exchange Transfusion (E. T.) in Septicemia of the newborn prompted us to apply this measure in this patient. 1.2 However we have not found any reports on the use E.T. beyond the neonatal period, in the critically...