Background  Multiple procedures (Lumbar puncture and bone marrow aspiration /biopsy) cause pain, stress, depression and etc for the patients and their families. Various methods have been recommended for pain reduction during invasive procedures. The aim of this study is to report the complications following general anesthesia. Methods In this prospective observational study, two hundred and ...

1053 B,y ARTHUR SAWITSKY, M.D.,* AND LEO M. MEYER, M.D. M ARROW aspiration is a well standardized technic for the study of hematopojetic function in the human. The method has been applied to dogs’ and cats’ with success. In these animals bone marrow is obtained by aspiration of the iliac crest. The disadvantages of the aspiration method are loss of architecture and mixture of marrow and blood i...

Hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) which give rise to different blood cell types are present within the bone marrow microenvironment, especially in flat bones such as skull, vertebrae, pelvis and chest. Interacting factors such as stromal derived factor-1/CXCR4, very late antigen-4/vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, Lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1/ intercellular adhesion molec...

Pancytopenia can be caused by a wide variety of etiologies that require evaluation of bone marrow. This is a cross sectional study carried out to identify the various findings in bone marrow aspiration in patients with pancytopenia on peripheral smear examination. Bone marrow aspiration was performed in 103 cases with pancytopenia over a period of 2 years. Bone marrow was hypercellular in 46.6%...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) following bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 76-year-old man was diagnosed with acute myeloblastic leukemia. Pain and hematoma were detected in his left leg and hip 4 days after bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy. A pelvic arteriography was performed, and a diagnosis of AVF was ...

We studied eight patients with miliary tuberculosis (TB). In all instances, tuberculomatous lesions were demonstrated in the aspirated bone marrow. We conclude that the bone marrow aspiration has great value in diagnosing miliary TB because it provides sufficient material to permit examination of serial sections as needed to confirm the diagnosis. The bone marrow aspiration also is safer than t...

Aspiration of equine sternal bone marrow is required for the cultivation of bone marrow-derived multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (BM-MSCs) for regenerative therapies. For bone marrow aspiration as well as for MSC cultivation, there is a need to optimize techniques and protocols to enhance MSC harvest at minimized culture times. In a comparative study bone marrow aspirates from sternebra 4 ...

Bone marrow examination is a useful and cost effective diagnostic procedure in haematological practice for the diagnosis of both neoplastic and non-neoplastic haematological diseases. These procedures are also employed for typing of anaemias, evaluation of cytopenias and pyrexia of unknown origin. The bone marrow examination may either confirm the clinically suspected disease or may provide the...