Correlation of Oxidative Stress with Serum Trace Element Levels and Antioxidant Enzyme Status in Beta Thalassemia Major Patients: A Review of the Literature by Q. Shazia, Z. H. Mohammad, Taibur Rahman, Hossain Uddin Shekhar

“…Patients with this disease need repeated blood transfusion for survival. This may cause oxidative stress and tissue injury due to iron overload, altered antioxidant enzymes, and other essential trace element levels. …”
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Risk Factors and Medico-Economic Effect of Pancreatic Fistula after Pancreaticoduodenectomy by Renping Huang, Bing Liu, Hua Chen, Xuewei Bai, Rui Kong, Gang Wang, Yongwei Wang, Bei Sun, Yinghui Guan

“…The excessive drinking, soft remnant pancreas, preoperative albumin, and intraoperative blood transfusion are risk factors affecting both PF and CR-PF incidence. …”
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Graves’ Disease Causing Pancytopenia and Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia at Different Time Intervals: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by Peyman Naji, Geetika Kumar, Shabana Dewani, William A. Diedrich, Ankur Gupta

“…His hemoglobin improved to 10.7 g/dL at discharge without blood transfusion. Graves’ disease should be considered in the differential diagnosis of hematologic abnormalities. …”
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A Child as a Donor for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Bioethical Justification—A Case Study on Sickle Cell Disease by Andrea Z. Pereira, Ricardo Hellman, Nelson Hamerschlak, Andrea Kondo, Polianna Mara Rodrigues de Souza, Wilson Leite Pedreira, Luiz Fernando Alves Lima Mantovani, Eduardo Juan Troster, Henrique Grunspun, Marco Aurélio Scarpinella Bueno

“…The complication for the donor was the need for blood transfusion.…”
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Automatic system for blood donors control with seropositive results in epidemiological tests. by Ariel Menéndez Barrios, Darian Álvarez Rodríguez, Pedro Sánchez Frenes, Enrique Castillo Monzón, Nancy Piloto, Yenixey Lòpez

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Prevention of infectious diseases transmission through blood transfusion is one of the biggest challenges in the transfusion field of medicine. …”
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Validation of the WHO Hemoglobin Color Scale Method by Leeniyagala Gamaralalage Thamal Darshana, Deepthi Inoka Uluwaduge

“…A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted by the Medical Laboratory Sciences Unit of University of Sri Jayewardenepura in collaboration with National Blood Transfusion Centre, Sri Lanka. A total of 100 subjects participated in this study. …”
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Case Report: Major right-sided hepatectomies in infants in Uzbekistan: a case series by K. Semash, T. Dzhanbekov, S. Islomov

“…Radical resection (R0) was achieved in all cases, with average intraoperative blood loss 120 ml, and only one patient requiring a blood transfusion. Postoperative complications were minimal, with two cases of mild to moderate post-hepatectomy liver insufficiency (Clavien-Dindo grades 1–2) and one bile leak (Clavien-Dindo grade 2) that resolved spontaneously. …”
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Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Associated with Mature Ovarian Cystic Teratoma Containing Monoclonal Immunoglobulin G: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Yuma Nato, Keiki Nagaharu, Keika Itoh, Naoki Shinke, Keiko Maeyama, Akihiko Sawaki, Hiroyuki Miyashita

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Classification and advances in clinical research of artificial colloidal plasma substitutes by CHANG Zhengyang, LI Ming, GAO Jianpeng, ZHANG Jing, LYU Hua, ZHANG Licheng

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Evaluation of Hematological Parameters in Partial Exchange and Packed Cell Transfusion in Treatment of Severe Anemia in Pregnancy by Sudha Salhan, Vrijesh Tripathi, Rajvir Singh, Harsha S. Gaikwad

“…This study was conducted to compare the improvements in hematological parameters of patients receiving partial exchange blood transfusion and transfusion of packed cells without exchange. …”
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Characteristics of the Small Bowel Lesions Detected by Capsule Endoscopy in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease by Harunobu Kawamura, Eiji Sakai, Hiroki Endo, Leo Taniguchi, Yasuo Hata, Akiko Ezuka, Hajime Nagase, Takaomi Kessoku, Eiji Yamada, Hidenori Ohkubo, Takuma Higrashi, Yusuke Sekino, Tomoko Koide, Hiroshi Iida, Takashi Nonaka, Hirokazu Takahashi, Masahiko Inamori, Shin Maeda, Atsushi Nakajima

“…In CKD patients, past history of blood transfusion (OR 5.66; 95% CI 1.10–29.1, P=0.04) was identified as an independent predictor of the presence of vascular lesions, and history of low-dose aspirin use (OR 6.00; 95% CI 1.13–31.9, P=0.04) was identified as that of erosive/ulcerated lesions. …”
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Morbidity of 200 Consecutive Cases of Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomies: A Single-Center Experience by Pedro W. Baron, Ramzi Ben-Youssef, Okechukwu N. Ojogho, Arputharaj Kore, D. Duane Baldwin

“…None of the laparoscopic procedures required conversion to an open procedure, and none of the donors required perioperative blood transfusion. The median recipient serum creatinine at 6 months after transplant was 1.2 mg/dL for each group. …”
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Liver Surgery for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Laparoscopic versus Open Approach by C. G. Ker, J. S. Chen, K. K. Kuo, S. C. Chuang, S. J. Wang, W. C. Chang, K. T. Lee, H. Y. Chen, C. C. Juan

“…The necessity for blood transfusion was found in 8 patients (6.9%) and 106 patients (50.9%) for LR and OR groups. …”
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Not All Acute Abdomen Cases in Early Pregnancy Are Ectopic; Expect the Unexpected: Renal Angiomyolipoma Causing Massive Retroperitoneal Haemorrhage by Muhammad Asim Rana, Ahmed F. Mady, Nagesh Jakaraddi, Shahzad A. Mumtaz, Habib Ahmad, Kamal Naser

“…Stable patients can be managed with fluid resuscitation, correction of coagulopathy if any, and blood transfusion. Endovascular options involving selective intra-arterial embolisation or stent-grafts are clearly getting more and more popularity. …”
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Prediction of Blood Donations Using Data Mining Based on the Decision Tree Algorithms KNN, SVM, and MLP by Arash Fahmihassan, Mohammadreza Moghari, Omidmahdi Ebadati

“…In this paper, we try to use data mining and machine learning techniques in decision making levels at mentioned field, to use this mechanism for prediction that how much blood will be donate to blood transfusion centers and blood banks in different period time, to estimate and supply the required blood volume of blood banks in different areas. …”
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Development of a LASSO machine learning algorithm-based model for postoperative delirium prediction in hepatectomy patients by Yu Zhu, Renrui Liang, Ying Wang, Jian-Jun Yang, Ning Zhou, Cheng-Mao Zhou

“…Results The final variables selected by the LASSO method were: Ramelteon, Age, Sex, Alcohol, Viral status, Cardiovascular disease, ASA class, Total bilirubin, Prothrombin time, Laparoscopic approach, and Blood transfusion. The performance of the nomogram was measured using ROC curve analysis, with an AUC of 0.854 (95% CI: 0.794–0.914) for the model. …”
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Pelvic Radiation Disease Management by Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Prospective Study of 44 Patients by Mehdi Ouaïssi, Stephanie Tran, Diane Mege, Vivien Latrasse, Alain Barthelemy, Nicolas Pirro, Philippe Grandval, James Lassey, Igor Sielezneff, Bernard Sastre, Mathieu Coulange

“…Twenty-seven percent of patients required blood transfusion (n=12). The median of delay between radiotherapy and HBOT was 26 months (3–175). …”
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Human Fetal Liver: An In Vitro Model of Erythropoiesis by Guillaume Pourcher, Christelle Mazurier, Yé Yong King, Marie-Catherine Giarratana, Ladan Kobari, Daniela Boehm, Luc Douay, Hélène Lapillonne

“…This work supports the idea that FL remains a model of study and is not a candidate for ex vivo RBCS production for blood transfusion as a direct source of stem cells but could be helpful to understand and enhance proliferation abilities for primitive cells such as ES cells or iPS.…”
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Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Patients with Solid Tumours by Diamantis P. Kofteridis, Antonios Valachis, Eirini Koutsounaki, Sofia Maraki, Eleni Mavrogeni, Foteini N. Economidou, Dimitra Dimopoulou, Kostas Kalbakis, Vassilis Georgoulias, George Samonis

“…Severe sepsis on admission (𝑃=0.002) and prior blood transfusion (𝑃=0.043) were independent predictors of treatment failure. …”
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Optimization of optimal pressure parameters for filtering chyle plasma under low-temperature conditions by GAO Zhanhai, JI Xiaohua, ZHANG Fumin, HUANG Zhanhua, CHENG Wei

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