transfusion of blood products from an infected person with aids, is meant to infect recipient. blood products such as whole blood, red blood cells, platelets, plasma, frozen blood precipitate, factor viii, factor ix, can be infected with hiv. transmissions from blood factors can be seen in plasma from thousands of donors that were collected in a container and were used to treat hemophilia. bloo...

Transfusion-associated bacterial sepsis (TABS) is caused by bacteria present in blood components. It is one of the earliest recognized adverse transfusion-associated reactions. Blood components most often become contaminated while blood is being collected from a donor; more seldom in the case of asymptomatic bacteremia or erroneous blood processing procedures (1). Although the risk for transfus...

INTRODUCTION Transfusion of packed red blood cells (pRBC) with appropriate indications is not only important for patient safety and well-being but is also crucial for proper utilization of resources and health care-related cost reduction. We aimed to investigate the clinical appropriateness of blood transfusion in Shariati Hospital, one of the largest academic medical centers in Tehran. METHO...

BACKGROUND Factors affecting the efficacy of platelet and red blood cell (RBC) transfusion in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) have not been studied extensively. We aimed to evaluate platelet and RBC transfusion efficacy by measuring the platelet corrected count increment and the hemoglobin increment, respectively, 24 h after transfusion in 105 patients who rec...

We assessed the feasibility and efficacy of subcutaneous erythropoietin alpha (EPO) therapy and preoperative autologous blood donation (ABD) in children undergoing open heart surgery. Thirty-nine children were treated consecutively with EPO (100 U x kg(-1) s.c. three times a week in the 3 weeks preceding the operation and i.v. on the day of surgery) and two ABDs were made (Group 1). As controls...

background: in spite of being vital to save the patients' life, blood transition may be dangerous and even fatal, too the aim of this study was to investigate the side effects (complications) of blood transfusion in the educational hospitals of qazvin. m aterials and methods: this is a descriptive cross sectional and practical study that was carried out in 2010. in this study, all the patients ...

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introduction: the main purpose of donor selection is not only the donor protection from blood donation complications but also the blood recipient not be expose to blood- transmitted diseases. this study aimed to determine the reason for exemption from donors among blood donor's who refer to ilam blood transfusion organization. materials and methods: this is a retrospective and descriptive ...

blood is a liquid tissue in which dissolved with abundant chemical factors and millions of different cells the reduction of unwanted side effects, especially diseases that emerge through blood such as hiv and hepatitis, has a significant role for modern medicine of transfusion and transplantation. the issues and costs of human blood collection and storage, direct this procedure towards the use ...