Failling hematocrit values are traditionally used to observe the course of active bleeding, since hematocrit values usually reflect acute blood losses. However, evidence from the literature suggests that, after volume replacement, some degree of normovolemic hemodilution may be desirable and that return to normal hematocrit values is not necessarily the appropriate goal of transfusion therapy. ...

Recent studies have determined that many types of mushroom (eg Hericium spp), may have important physiological functions in humans, including antioxidant activities, the regulation of blood lipid levels and reduction of blood glucose levels. In this study, a methanol extract of the fruiting bodies of Hericium erinaceus was adsorbed on silica gel columns and eluted using polarity gradients of ch...

OBJECTIVE Infantile hemangioma (IH) is a rapidly growing vascular tumor affecting newborns. It is composed of immature endothelial cells and pericytes that proliferate into a disorganized mass of blood vessels. We isolated pericytes from IH (Hem-pericytes) to test our hypothesis that Hem-pericytes are unable to stabilize blood vessels. METHODS AND RESULTS We injected pericytes in vivo, in com...

BACKGROUND Allowing patients to measure their blood pressure at home is recognized as being of clinical value. However, it is not known how often these measurements are taken correctly. Blood pressure monitors for home use fall into two types based on the position of the cuff, ie, at the upper arm or the wrist. The latter is particularly convenient, as measurements can be taken fully clothed. T...

Cigarettes have a bad impact on health, one of which is the most fundamental to blood, that hematocrit. The goal research were comparing and correlating cigarettes with hematocrit,used cross sectional design in Mulyasari Subang Village, West Java, 55 male respondents. Respondents who smoked 27 people. Smoking duration 15.93 years ± 7.54. type filters, 55.6%. hematocrit value 61.8% low category,...

abstract         background and objective: methamphetamine has strong stimulating effects on various systems of the human body. the aim of this study was to evaluate the hematological and biochemical parameters in methamphetamine addicts and to compare them with healthyindividuals.      methods: this is a retrospective case-control study that was conducted in 1390-91 in ibn sina hospital in shi...

The rates of washout of m X e and I-iodoantipyrine from the myocardium into the coronary sinus blood were determined over a wide range of hematocrits after simultaneous injection of the isotopes into the left anterior descending coronary artery of dogs. The ratio of the monoexponential disappearance constants (kx/k,), which is a measure of the ratio of the dynamic blood-tissue partition coeffic...

to evaluate pathogenicity of 3 chicken anemia virus isolates-cv1, cv2 and cv3 respectively - the current experiment carried out. after tittering of the viruses, 30 one day old spf chicks were grouped and intramuscularly inoculated with each isolate in a separate group. two other groups as positive and control groups were inoculate with a live vaccine virus and normal saline respectively. during...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether hematocrit obtained 15 mins after blood transfusion in hemodynamically stable neonates is significantly different from that obtained after 6 hrs. We hypothesized that the hematocrit stabilizes within the first 15 mins that follow a 3-hr blood transfusion in preterm infants. DESIGN We prospectively studied 24 consecutive infants who received blood transfusion. He...