ALLMedicine™ Acute Anemia Center

Sep 14th, 2022 - Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is an essential treatment for many patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), whose RBCs express hemoglobin S (HbS), a mutated form of hemoglobin A (HbA). Transfusion goals include increasing blood oxygen carrying ca...

Aug 29th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Chronic anemia has no precise definition. Anemia that persists for 6 months or more (eg, hereditary spherocytosis [HS]) is clearly chronic; however, anemia that lasts only 2 months (eg, iron deficiency that is being treated) sh...

Aug 29th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Chronic anemia has no precise definition. Anemia that persists for 6 months or more (eg, hereditary spherocytosis [HS]) is clearly chronic; however, anemia that lasts only 2 months (eg, iron deficiency that is being treated) sh...

Aug 29th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Chronic anemia has no precise definition. Anemia that persists for 6 months or more (eg, hereditary spherocytosis [HS]) is clearly chronic; however, anemia that lasts only 2 months (eg, iron deficiency that is being treated) sh...

Aug 7th, 2022 - Cerebral infarction (CI) is an unusual complication in patients with bleeding disorders. To our knowledge, this is the first case of postoperative internal border-zone infarction (I-BZI) from Hemophilia A. We present a case of Hemophilia A develop...

May 17th, 2022 - HBOC 201 [hemoglobin glutamer - 250 (bovine)] is an investigational agent, manufactured by Hemoglobin Oxygen Therapeutics LLC (HbO2 Therapeutics), located in Souderton, PA. HBOC-201, has been previously studied17-20 as an alternative to blood tran...

Apr 12th, 2022 - Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are heterogeneous malignant bone marrow disorders characterized by ineffective haematopoiesis, peripheral blood cytopenias and variable risk of leukaemia transformation. The median age at diagnosis is 75 years. The ...

Apr 23rd, 2021 - This Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial will be done in the period from November 2020 - October 2021, after approval of our local ethical committee, and based upon written informed consent, included sixty cardiac patients, ASA physical statuses...

Oct 5th, 2020 - Epistaxis are present in over 90 % of patients with Rendu - Osler . They involve no significant difference 2 sexes. They often appear in childhood and adolescence and are present in three-quarters of patients at the age of 20 years. These epistaxi...

Aug 27th, 2018 - A major issue faced by emergency departments all over the world is overcrowding, resulting from limited resources (i.e. staff, space, equipment) attending to a large of patients that exceeds the physical and/or staffing capacity of the ED. To mana...

Feb 20th, 2019 - In anemia, a decrease in the number of red blood cells (RBCs) transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide impairs the body's ability for gas exchange. The decrease may result from blood loss, increased destruction of RBCs (hemolysis), or decreased prod...

Mar 2nd, 2016 - The Medical Management of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding in Reproductive-Aged Women Bradley LD, Gueye NA Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016;214:31-44 Background Menstruation occurs at predictable 21- to 35-day intervals and lasts for 3-7 days. A typical blood l...

Jan 7th, 2015 - Blood for transfusion Credit: UAB Hospital The process of pathogen inactivation does not compromise the quality of red blood cells (RBCs), results of a phase 3 study suggest. Researchers compared untreated RBCs and RBCs treated with the INTERCEPT.

Apr 1st, 2011 - Major Finding: Diffusion-weighted MRI in children hospitalized with acute anemic events showed evidence of acute silent infarction in 4 of 22 patients with sickle cell disease (18%) and in 2 of 30 patients without sickle cell disease (7%). Data So.

Apr 1st, 2011 - The following reports summarize some of the findings presented at the 2011 International Stroke Conference. LOS ANGELES—Silent strokes, which have no immediate symptoms but can cause long-term cognitive and learning deficits, occur in a significan.