background: blood transfusion is one of the most crucial needs of the society in multiple diseases and injuries. the only source of blood is donation. students consist a large and healthy group who are able of providing a large number of blood donation, however, blood donation is rare amongst them. this study was conducted to evaluate students awareness and attitude towards blood donation in ke...

BACKGROUND Data regarding health outcomes among living kidney donors are lacking, especially among nonwhite persons. METHODS We linked identifiers from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) with administrative data of a private U.S. health insurer and performed a retrospective study of 4650 persons who had been living kidney donors from October 1987 through July 2007 and wh...

the aim of this study was to analyze the incidence of stage of embryonic development, embryo quality and the time of transfer on pregnancy rate in embryo transfer program timed. we were worked a total of 23holsteincowsasembryo donors, super-ovulated with gonadotropin of pregnant mare serum (pmsg) (2500 3000ui).69 cows were used as recipients of holstein dairy heifers with an age of20 months and...

results the accuracy for detecting number of main renal arteries were not different in both groups which were 96.7% in ct angiography group and 90% in traditional angiography group (p = 0.15). the accuracy for detection of main renal veins were 100% in group 1 and 96.7% in group 2 (p = 0.31). patients and methods a total number of 60 living kidney donors who underwent open surgical approach for...

BACKGROUND We recently reported complex hepatitis B virus (HBV) drug resistant and concomitant vaccine escape hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) variants during human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART) exposure in Ethiopia. As a continuation of this report using the HBV positive sera from the same study participants, the current study further analyzed th...

background and aims: cytomegalovirus (cmv) has worldwide distribution, and its prevalence rate depends on factors such as economic and geographical conditions. an important way of the virus transmission is via blood. due to high prevalence of anti-cmv antibodies in blood donors and lack of data concerning its seroprevalence in the region, this study was carried out to determine the prevalence r...