Mapping naturally presented T cell antigens in medulloblastoma based on integrative multi-omics by Julia Velz, Lena K. Freudenmann, Gioele Medici, Marissa Dubbelaar, Malte Mohme, David R. Ghasemi, Jonas Scheid, Daniel J. Kowalewski, Angelica B. Patterson, Anna M. Zeitlberger, Katrin Lamszus, Manfred Westphal, Matthias Eyrich, Martina Messing-Jünger, Andreas Röhrig, Harald Reinhard, Kévin Beccaria, Rogeiro B. Craveiro, Beat M. Frey, Martin Sill, Sven Nahnsen, Marie Gauder, Konstantina Kapolou, Manuela Silginer, Tobias Weiss, Hans-Georg Wirsching, Patrick Roth, Michael Grotzer, Niklaus Krayenbühl, Oliver Bozinov, Luca Regli, Hans-Georg Rammensee, Elisabeth J. Rushing, Felix Sahm, Juliane S. Walz, Michael Weller, Marian C. Neidert

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Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa by W M Simmonds, Y Awuku, C Barrett, M Brand, K Davidson, D Epstein, E Fredericks, S Gabriel, S Grobler, C Gounden, L Katsidzira, V J Louw, V Naidoo, C Noel, E Ogutu, N Ramonate, N Seabi, M Setshedi, J Van Zyl, G Watermeyer, C Kassianides

“…The current drive towards patient blood management in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)prescribes that we regulate not only the use of blood transfusion but also the management of patients in whom the cause of iron loss or inadequate iron absorption is sought. …”
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TWELVE INTRAUTERINE TRANSFUSIONS IN THE EARLY EDEMATOUS FORM OF HEMOLYTIC DISEASE IN BOTH FETUSES WITH DICHORIONIC DIAMNIOTIC TWINS by Антон Валерьевич Михайлов, Алексей Николаевич Кянксеп, Светлана Владимировна Самусь, Анна Антоновна Савельева, Татьяна Александровна Каштанова, Инна Викторовна Кянксеп, Артем Николаевич Романовский

“…Seven intrauterine blood transfusions were consecutively performed to the first fetus and five transfusions to the second ones from 24 weeks of pregnancy. …”
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Diagnostic and Treatment Challenges of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria in Uganda by Boniface Amanee Elias Lumori, Daniel Muyanja

“…He received many blood transfusions and hematinics on several occasions during the course of his admissions. …”
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Porphyria Cutanea Tarda in a Patient with End-Stage Renal Disease: A Case of Successful Treatment with Deferoxamine and Ferric Carboxymaltose by Natacha Rodrigues, Fernando Caeiro, Alice Santana, Teresa Mendes, Leonor Lopes

“…A decision was made to start the patient on ferric carboxymaltose, which was well tolerated without disease symptoms and need of further blood transfusions. This case suggests that deferoxamine is efficient in treatment of porphyria cutanea tarda. …”
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Appropriate Use of Inpatient Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents by Chenghao Cui, Timothy Nguyen, Mohammad Rattu

“…One dose was dispensed when the Hb was 11.1 g/dL to a patient on renal replacement therapy, and one dose was dispensed when the Hb was 13.8 g/dL to a surgical patient who refused blood transfusions. Among secondary outcomes of interest, there was a difference in blood transfusions administered in critical versus non-critical care settings. …”
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Spontaneous Complete Remission in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Severe Sepsis by Rambod Mozafari, Mahsa Moeinian, Ali Asadollahi-Amin

“…However, its association with infection and blood transfusions has been described. We report a 53-year-old male who presented with severe sepsis and who was diagnosed with AML (M4). …”
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Cardiac injury caused by iron overload in thalassemia by Chunxi Fu, Chunxi Fu, Xue Yang, Xue Yang

“…Two mechanisms are responsible for iron overload in β-thalassemia: increased iron absorption due to ineffective erythropoiesis and blood transfusions. This review examines the mechanisms of myocardial injury caused by cardiac iron overload and role of various clinical examination techniques in assessing cardiac iron burden and functional impairment. …”
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Transfusion Thresholds, Quality of Life, and Current Approaches in Myelodysplastic Syndromes by Ioannis Koutsavlis

“…Hemoglobin thresholds and triggers for blood transfusions have changed over the years moving from a higher to a lower level. …”
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A Rare Case of Chronic Uterine Inversion Secondary to Submucosal Fibroid Managed in the Province Hospital of Nepal by Amit Singh, Rajan Ghimire

“…She was resuscitated with blood transfusions and intravenous fluid. She was posted for emergency surgery where myomectomy was done vaginally, and finally, Haultain’s procedure was carried out. …”
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Management of Acute Wilsonian Hepatitis with Severe Hemolysis: A Successful Combination of Chelation and MARS Dialysis by Jeremy Hassoun, Nathalie Hammer, Giulia Magini, Belen Ponte, Marie Ongaro, Anne-Laure Rougemont, Nicolas Goossens, Jean-Louis Frossard, Laurent Spahr

“…We report here the case of a young woman who presented with classic acute Wilsonian hepatitis complicated by liver and renal failure and a severe hemolysis related to massive nonceruloplasmin bound copper accumulation requiring repeated blood transfusions. The early initiation of a combined treatment including conventional chelation therapy and repeated MARS dialysis sessions allowed a rapid control of hemolysis, a progressive decrease of free copper overload, and clinical recompensation without liver transplantation.…”
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Injection Therapy for Nonvariceal Gastrointestinal Bleeding by Paul Kortan

“…Three controlled trials of endoscopic sclerosis in bleeding peptic ulcer disease showed decreased blood transfusions, surgery and hospital stay, but did not find any significant difference in mortality. …”
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Dead Collections by Mary Snyder Broussard

“…While he experiences many symptoms including cold skin and reliance on weekly blood transfusions, it is his life-threatening photophobia (aversion to sunlight) that becomes a serious impairment to commuting to and from work. …”
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Case report: Successful treatment of hyperbaric oxygen for radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis in a 95-year-old patient with bladder cancer by Li Lin, Li Lin, Man He, Yanyan Zeng, Xiaoxiao Ni, Yequn Guo, Xiaojuan Xie, Lingling Sun, Huai Huang

“…As of 26 October 2023, it is noteworthy that the patient’s hemoglobin level has restored to the pre-hematuria level (106 g/L) with no need for blood transfusions for 8 consecutive months. Moreover, there was no recurrence of hematuria during the follow-up period. …”
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Humoral Acute Rejection in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura by Ana Paola Rico-Portillo, José Ignacio Cerrillos-Gutierrez, Jorge Andrade-Sierra, Alfredo Gutiérrez-Govea, Enrique Rojas-Campos, Claudia Alejandra Mendoza-Cerpa, Benjamín Gómez-Navarro

“…A 47-year-old male was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in 2011; idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was also diagnosed in 2011 refractory to medical treatment and finally treated with splenectomy (2017) without relapses since that date, 5 blood transfusions, and 4 platelet apheresis in 2017. Renal transplant from a living related donor (brother), ABO compatible, crossmatch were negative, sharing 1 haplotype. …”
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Treatment of Severe Refractory Hematuria due to Radiation-Induced Hemorrhagic Cystitis with Dexamethasone by José Carlos Rodrigues Nascimento, Márcio Wilker Soares Campelo, Iuri Arruda Aragão, José Fernando Bastos de Moura, Lúcio Flávio Gonzaga Silva, Reinaldo Barreto Oriá

“…During 45 days of hospitalization, the patient underwent two cystoscopic procedures for urinary bladder flocculation, whole blood transfusions, and one platelet apheresis. None of these interventions led to clinical resolution. …”
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Potential Effects of Silymarin and Its Flavonolignan Components in Patients with β-Thalassemia Major: A Comprehensive Review in 2015 by Hadi Darvishi Khezri, Ebrahim Salehifar, Mehrnoush Kosaryan, Aily Aliasgharian, Hossein Jalali, Arash Hadian Amree

“…This defect results in red blood cells lysis and chronic anemia that can be treated by multiple blood transfusions and iron chelation therapy. Without iron chelation therapy, iron overload will cause lots of complications in patients. …”
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Perinatal Lethal Gaucher Disease due to RecNcil Recombinant Mutation in the GBA Gene Presenting with Hydrops Fetalis and Severe Congenital Anemia by Ekta Bhutada, Timothy Pyragius, Scott G. Petersen, Frans Niemann, Admire Matsika

“…This was treated with multiple in utero blood transfusions with no clinically significant improvement and intrauterine death occurred at 28 weeks. …”
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Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for a Rendu-Osler-Weber Disease Patient with Recurrent Severe Epistaxis: A Case Report by Maximilian Niyazi, Marco-Domenico Caversaccio, Patrick Dubach, Andreas Geretschläger, Andreas Arnold, Claus Belka, Daniel M. Aebersold, Norbert M. Blumstein

“…We present a case of a Rendu-Osler-Weber disease patient with recurrent life threatening epistaxis demanding multiple blood transfusions despite of repetitive endoscopic laser and electrocoagulations, endovascular embolisation, septodermoplasty, and long-term intranasal dressings. …”
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𝛽-Thalassemia: HiJAKing Ineffective Erythropoiesis and Iron Overload by Luca Melchiori, Sara Gardenghi, Stefano Rivella

“…The defects involved are extremely heterogeneous and give rise to a large phenotypic spectrum, with patients that are almost asymptomatic to cases in which regular blood transfusions are required to sustain life. As a result of the inefficient synthesis of 𝛽-globin, the patients suffer from chronic anemia due to a process called ineffective erythropoiesis (IE). …”
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