Efficacy, recovery, and safety of RBCs from autologous placental blood: clinical experience in 52 newborns.
Another optimistic article about the use of autologous placental blood in order to reduce exposure to allogeneic donor blood. A benefit was observed in almost 60% of neonates with a […]
Autologous blood sequestration using a double venous reservoir bypass circuit and polymerized hemoglobin prime.
This experimental study describes a modified cardiopulmonary bypass circuit using a bovine hemoglobin solution priming that protects a portion of the autologous blood volume from the damaging effects of bypass. […]
Acute normovolemic hemodilution and intraoperative cell salvage in aortic surgery.
This retrospective study reviews the blood conservation strategy developed in patients undergoing infrarenal aortic surgery in a tertiary vascular unit from 1995 to 2001. The authors show that the judicious […]
Approaches to successful total knee arthroplasty in haemophilia A patients with inhibitors.
Three cases of hemophilia A with inhibitors to factor VIII underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using rFVIIa in the first patient, rFVIIa and high dose rFVIII in the second and […]
Transfusion-related alloimmune neutropenia: an undescribed complication of blood transfusion.
Interesting, but very rare adverse reaction that needs not be treated as long as no bacterial infection complicates the situation. Then antibiotics are the therapy of choice, and not granulocyte […]
Severe anemia after gastrointestinal hemorrhage in a Jehovah’s Witness: new treatment strategies.
Somewhat similar to the letter published by Cothren et al. in the NEJM, this article reports the case of a Jehovah’s witness who bled to a nadir hemoglobin concentration of […]
Blood loss in elective coronary artery surgery: A comparison of centrifugal versus roller pump heads during cardiopulmonary bypass.
In an age of widespread use of anticogulants and patelet inhibitors for cardiac surgery, it is important to know the impact on bleeding and coagulation for every componants of the […]