TO THE EDITOR: In their recent editorial on the disappointing disagreement between two World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-accredited laboratories evaluating samples for detecting recombinant human erythropoietin (Epo) in urine, Delanghe and Joyner (4) concluded that blood-based indirect Epo tests offer an interesting alternative (2). This is ideally true, considering that the urine test is proven ...

The aim of this study was to determine hematological profile of sickle cell disease (SCD) from Surat, South Gujarat, India. This prospective cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Pediatrics and Sickle Cell Anemia Laboratory, Faculty of Pathology, Government Medical College, Surat, India, between July 2009 and December 2010. Patients included in this study were in their steady...

The paper presents results from several pilot studies on the application of terrestrial laser scanning in forest inventory tasks with the goal of automatically determining inventory-relevant tree parameters. The basic data sets have been provided using two different terrestrial laser scanners, one based on the time of flight distance measuring technique and the other one based on phase measurem...

background non-organic failure to thrive (nftt) is the most common cause of failure to thrive (ftt) which is attributed to inadequate nutrition due to economic factors or parental neglect. nftt can lead to a vicious cycle of poor and inadequate eating and severity of anemia. the aim of this study was to determine the hematological indices in children with nftt. materials and methods in a cross ...

objectives: this study focuses on the hematological parameters change and age in radiation field workers. the study aimed to identify the effect of radiation on hematological parameters and their relation to age and duration of the experience in radiation field workers. material and methods: this study was conducted in the physiology research center in collaboration with thalassemia and hemogl...

OBJECTIVE Increments in red blood cell count (RBC), hemoglobin (Hb) and hematocrit (Ht) levels are reportedly associated with higher insulin resistance (IR). Obesity may cause IR, but underlying factors remain incompletely defined, and interactions between obesity, hematological parameters and IR are incompletely understood. We therefore determined whether: 1) BMI and obesity per se are indepen...

introduction: allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a potentially curative treatment modality for hematological malignancies. we evaluated the outcome of patients suffering from hematological malignancies, including acute leukemias, chronic myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome after allogeneic transplantation. methods: all patients having hematological malignancies with...

BACKGROUND Diagnostic difficulties in hematological malignancies may lead to unacceptably prolonged help-seeking to diagnostic interval as well as increased complications and poor outcomes. Proactive consultation by a clinical pathologist (PCCP) may help clinical diagnosis and therapeutic strategy. Hence, the aim of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of PCCP on the help-seeking to di...