Athlete burnout (ABO) has been identified as a significant concern among youth sportspeople. Conceptualisations of self, or perspective taking, predict mental health non-athlete adolescents. Consequently, this study aimed to determine how much perspective-taking contributes ABO adolescent athletes. A non-experimental correlational design was employed explore the utility three selves model ABO. ...

BACKGROUND As antigen-specific immunoadsorption (IA) using the Glycosorb®-ABO columns is becoming increasingly popular in ABO-incompatible (ABOi) transplantation, in this study, we retrospectively investigated the efficacy of Glycosorb®-ABO IA in vivo and ex vivo. We also assessed the risk of anti-A/B antibody (ABab) rebound before and after ABOi kidney transplantation. METHODS A protocol for...

Pediatricians have long argued that children are not little adults, and it seems intuitive that clinical practices and regulations should follow appropriately from this paradigm. One can find no better evidence to support this contention than the report by Almond et al1 published in this issue of Circulation. ABO incompatibility has been considered a relative or, by United Network for Organ Sha...

Transfusion of about 60 ml of ABO incompatible plasma in 4 units of pooled platelets precipitated severe haemolysis, unmasking the emergence of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH), in a patient with aplastic anaemia. In vitro tests showed that her red cells were lysed by both ABO compatible and incompatible plasma from normal donors. The behaviour of this case and the in vitro results su...

BACKGROUND ABO blood type incompatibility between a donor and recipient is generally considered a contraindication to kidney transplantation. CASE CHARACTERISTICS A 12-year-old boy presented with end stage renal disease (blood group B), with the only healthy available donor being mother (blood group AB). The child received renal transplant with mother as the donor, with a designed desensitiza...

BACKGROUND The major challenge in ABO-incompatible transplantation is to minimize antibody-mediated rejection. Effective reduction of the anti-ABO blood group antibodies at the time of transplantation has made ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation a growing practice in our hospital and in centers worldwide. ABO antibodies result from contact with A- and B-like antigens in the intestines via n...

titers were controlled after each ABO-incompatible transfusion using standard laboratory techniques. In the case of O/A recipientdonor blood group constellation we started adsorption of recipients’ Anti-A with one or two units of A2-RBCs followed by transfusion of A1-RBCs with a higher number of A-antigens per RBC. Using the technique of in vivo adsorption of isoagglutinins recipients’ anti-A o...

Hemolysis most commonly occurs following bone marrow transplant when there is "minor" ABO blood group incompatibility between donor and recipient. The hemolysis has been attributed to destruction of the patient's incompatible erythrocytes by donor-derived anti-A and/or anti-B antibody produced from "passenger" immunocompetent donor lymphocytes. Extraordinary transfusion requirements of group O ...

AIM The aim of study was to: 1) examine the relationship between ABO blood groups and extent of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with chronic coronary artery disease (CAD), 2) compare ABO blood groups distribution in CAD patients and general population, 3) examine possible differences in traditional risk factors frequency in CAD patients with different ABO blood groups. MATERIALS AND METH...

The ABO blood group was discovered in 1900 by Austrian scientist, Karl Landsteiner. At present, the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) approves as 29 human blood group systems. The ABO blood group system consists of four antigens (A, B, O and AB). These antigens are known as oligosaccharide antigens, and widely expressed on the membranes of red cell and tissue cells as well as, i...