background: transfusion services rely on transfusion reaction reporting to provide patient care and protect the blood supply. unnecessary discontinuation of blood is a major wastage of scarce blood, as well as man, hours and funds. the aim of the present study was to describe the main characteristics of acute transfusion reactions reported in the 4 hospital of kermanshah university of medical s...

Synonyms and related keywords: blood transfusions, blood products, acute hemolytic transfusion reactions, transfusion complications, blood product reactions, allergic transfusion reaction, blood type, circulatory volume overload, anaphylactic transfusion reaction, blood anaphylaxis, hemolytic reactions, allergic reactions, anaphylactic reaction, anaphylaxis, transfusion-related acute lung injur...

haemovigilance is a system with standard program to cover the entire transfusion chain, monitor, evaluate and analyse the data to improve patients’ safety. we report the implemented haemovigilance system in hospitals and transfusion reactions (tr) in iran. methods and materials: this was a prospective descriptive study. the national reporting system for transfusion incidents was introduced in j...

Haemovigilance is a system with standard program to cover the entire transfusion chain, monitor, evaluate and analyse the data to improve patients’ safety. We report the implemented haemovigilance system in hospitals and transfusion reactions (TR) in Iran. Methods and Materials: This was a prospective descriptive study. The national reporting system for transfusion incidents was introduced in ...

When a reaction occurs during or after the transfusion of a blood product, those involved in the care of that patient tend to think first of an immunological evenł. l However, many transfusion reactions may not be immunologically mediated. The differential diagnosis of a transfusion reaction should include the many nonimmune conditions that can lead to the destruction of either donor or recipie...

2. A patient who was admitted to the intensive care unit for a major gastrointestinal bleed receives a red cell transfusion. One hour after the transfusion, he complains of severe dyspnea. Over the next 30 minutes he develops respiratory failure and fevers with a chest x-ray showing infiltrates. He is intubated, but over the next 24 hours he improves and is extubated in 48 hours. What reaction ...

BACKGROUND Transfusion is a cornerstone of the management of sickle cell disease but carries a high risk of hemolytic transfusion reaction, probably because of differences in erythrocyte antigens between blood donors of European descent and patients of African descent. Patients may experience hemolytic transfusion reactions that are delayed by from a few days to two weeks and manifest as acute ...

life-long red blood transfusion remains the main treatment for severe thalassemia. the development of hemolytic alloantibodies and erythrocyte autoantibodies complicated transfusion therapy in thalassemia patients. the frequency causes and prevention of this phenomenon among 80 transfused thalassemia patients were evaluated in ali asghar children's hospital during 1998-2004 in a cross-sectional...

T HE ERYTHROCYTES of patients with Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) hemolyse at 37 C. in normal compatible human sera in the absence of demonstrable antibody. The reaction is complement dependent and in vivo causes a hemolytic anemia of varying severity. The diagnostic acid hemolysis test for this disorder is performed by demonstrating hemolysis of suspect erythrocytes in the patient’s...