The origins of blood transfusion: the later phase.
A short but interesting article on the history of blood transfusion. – V. Kretschmer.
Autologous transfusion of shed mediastinal blood after coronary artery bypass grafting and bacterial contamination.
A good article to read. Many physicians retransfuse unwashed blood, but most experts prefer washed blood in all cases. – H. Gombotz.
The effects of hemoglobin glutamer-200 (Bovine) on the microcirculation in a canine hypovolemia model: A noninvasive computer-assisted intravital microscopy study.
The authors present a dog model of hemorrhage (similar to 40% blood loss) that will be useful for the evaluation of treatment(s) of severe hypovolemia. In this case, hemoglobin glutamer-200 […]
Prediction of fetal anemia with Doppler measurement of the middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity in pregnancies complicated by maternal blood group alloimmunization or parvovirus B19 infection.
Measurement of middle artery peak systolic velocity by two-dimensional and Doppler ultrasound is a non-invasive method to safely predict low fetal hemoglobin values (100% sensitivitiy and specifity). – V. Kretschmer.
Outcome of infants receiving in-utero transfusions for haemolytic disease.
Retrospective analysis of infants receiving in-utero transfusion showing good outcome. No information about immunohematological methods used. There was a trend of less exchange transfusions in infants having more in-utero transfusions. […]
A less invasive treatment strategy to prevent intracranial hemorrhage in fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia.
Immunoglobulin therapy in pregnant women with antibodies against platelet antigens of the fetus and neonetal alloimmune thrombocytopenia in the previous child proved successful. This study, which was not controlled or […]
The severity of immune fetal hydrops is predictive of fetal outcome after intrauterine treatment.
This retrospective study shows that the severity of immune fetal hydrops and the response to treatment is predictive of fetal outcome. – V. Kretschmer.
Fetal parvovirus B19 infection.
The article gives a good overview about incidence, pathogenesis, clinical symptoms, clinical course, diagnostics, therapy and prognosis of fetal parvovirus B19 infection by analysis of literature. The prognosis is mainly […]
Recombinant activated factor VII for adjunctive hemorrhage control in trauma.
This is a relatively new area for using rFVIIa, which is to treat uncontrolled haemorrhage in patients with severe trauma, following the earlier report of using rFVIIa successfully in treating […]
Recombinant activated factor VII for adjunctive hemorrhage control in trauma – Discussion.
Comments were given by the authors on the paper by Martinowitz et al., mentioning that the study was not case controlled, the dose regimen was variable, how can thrombotic complications […]
Acute bleeding complications in patients after bone marrow transplantation.
A very important and hopefully stimulating publication. Obviously, our knowledge of the bleeding complications in hypoplastic patients can not simply be transferred to patients after bone marrow transplantation. Further studies […]
Prospective RBC phenotype matching in a stroke-prevention trial in sickle cell anemia: a multicenter transfusion trial.
For a transfusionist from West/North Europe, the results are predictable and the conclusion expectable. In Germany, the prospective RBC phenotype matching in sickle cell anemia and thalassemia, and even in […]
Transfusion-transmitted virus in liver-transplanted children.
The article is also showing, what is already known, that TTV is transmitted by blood and transplants but that no pathogenicity of the virus could be proven yet. – V. […]
Contribution of sickle cell disease to the occurrence of developmental disabilities: A population-based study.
The article has only little relation to transfusion besides the fact that in sickle cell anemia developmental disabilities often occur that should be prevented by aggressive interventions in order to […]
Seroepidemiological survey of hepatitis C virus among commercial sex workers and pregnant women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
The article is of some interest in view of the contamination of commercial sex workers and pregnant women in a special region in Africa. The study can not conclusively discriminate […]