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Iron deficiency in blood donors: causes, symptoms, and mitigation strategies
Transfusion of blood products is a common medical procedure, and maintaining adequate blood supply depends on the unpaid donation of a small share of the general population. The absence of pre-donation testing for iron status allows many donors with iron deficiency to donate blood. This …
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Recommended Interventions to Reduce the Risk of Iron Deficiency in Blood Donors
Numerous studies indicate that US blood donors, especially women, have a high prevalence of iron deficiency. Iron is lost with each blood donation, and since donors are eligible to donate blood every eight weeks, it is a challenge to maintain iron balance in frequent blood donors. Prior to blood …
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Detection of HCMV viral IL-10 (vIL-10) in healthy blood donors
… and virus-infected cells. Specimens from healthy blood donors were tested for HCMV serostatus and vIL-10 levels. Of the thirty seropositive donors, twenty had detectable plasma vIL-10 levels while ten had no detectable vIL-10 levels. The results suggest that the custom vIL-10 ELISA was effective …
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Seroprevalence of parvovirus B19 in blood donors at the Kitwe Central Hospital, Blood Bank, Kitwe, Zambia
… women. It has been shown to be transmissible by blood transfusion but donor screening for the virus is not yet mandatory in most sub-saharan African countries including Zambia. This was a cross sectional study which aimed to determine the seroprevalence of Parvovirus B19 infections among healthy …
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Seroprevalence of parvovirus B19 in blood donors at the Kitwe Central Hospital, Blood Bank, Kitwe, Zambia
… women. It has been shown to be transmissible by blood transfusion but donor screening for the virus is not yet mandatory in most sub-saharan African countries including Zambia. This was a cross sectional study which aimed to determine the seroprevalence of Parvovirus B19 infections among healthy …
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A Future Once Deferred: Re-envisioning Men Who Have Sex With Men as Prospective Blood Donors
… men who have sex with men (MSM) as a prospective blood donor population in New Zealand, at a time when international and local policy is shifting toward individualised assessments. Three overarching aims guide this work: to descriptively characterize MSM with different donation experiences; to …
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Habits, hassle, and health: how do blood donors respond to a temporary deferral due to low haemoglobin?
This thesis explored the impact on whole blood donors of a six month deferral from giving blood due to a low haemoglobin (Hb) concentration. The aims were two-fold: first, to quantify the effect of a temporary deferral on donation patterns once eligible to return, and second, to identify the …
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An investigation of a theoretical model of willingness to donate blood
The Australian Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service (ARCBTS) in Western Australian faces a major problem with periodic shortages of blood components. These shortages are expected to become more frequent and severe as demand continues to increase at a faster rate than supply. Given that only five …
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The intersection of the HIV epidemic and blood donation in South Africa
… people living with HIV (PLWH) affects the local blood transfusion services (BTS) in multiple ways, including the recruitment of safe donors, the demand for blood and the development of blood safety policies. The latter includes the deferral of persons at risk of recently acquired HIV and …
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Effects of blood donation and iron homeostasis on medium and long term cardiometabolic outcomes
… several decades of research, the relevance of blood donation and iron homeostasis on cardiometabolic outcomes remains unclear. Objectives. This thesis aims to reliably characterise the relevance of blood donation and iron homeostasis on cardiometabolic outcomes while overcoming some limitations …
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Are Antinuclear Antibodies and Rheumatiod Factor Positivity More Prevalent in Apparently Healthy Smokers Compared to Ex-Smokers and Never Smokers?
… an effect on ANA and RF positivity in healthy blood donors.</p> <p><strong>Design, Setting, Participants:</strong> This was a cross-sectional, observational, retrospective study. 576 consenting volunteer blood donors recruited from the local blood banks gave additional blood samples, answered …
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ΑΝΤΙ ΜΗΝΙΓΓΙΤΙΔΟΚΟΚΚΙΚΑ ΑΝΤΙΣΩΜΑΤΑ ΣΕ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΝΗΛΙΚΟΥΣ
… AND D) 217 HEALTHY ADULTS (MEDICAL STAFF, BLOOD DONORS AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN ATTENDING THE HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT CLINIC). INADULTS THE PREVALENCE OF ANTI-B ANTIBODIES RANGED FROM 53 TO 71,4% IN THE VARIOUS GROUPS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MEDICAL STAFF (N 116 WHERE IT WAS FOUND TO BE …
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The feasibility of interspecific rescue of endothelial/hematopoietic lineage deficiency
… could be used as actual human solid organ and blood donors as well as in pre-clinic trials. As a proof of concept, we intended to develop interspecific chimeras between mouse and rat to test the possibility that embryonic stem cells (ESCs) from one species are able to survive and develop in a …
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ΑΝΤΙΣΩΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΤΑ ΔΕΟΞΥΡΙΒΟΝΟΥΚΛΕΙΚΟΥ ΟΞΕΟΣ (DNA). ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΓΚΡΙΣΗ ΜΕΘΟΔΩΝ ΠΡΟΣΔΙΟΡΙΣΜΟΥ, ΚΛΙΝΙΚΗ ΣΗΜΑΣΙΑ
… RHEUMATIC DISEASES AND 119 SERA OF HEALTHY BLOOD DONORS. THE PRESENCE OF BOTH IGG AND IGM ANTI DS DNA WAS HIGHLY CORRELATED WITH SLE. IN ADDITION SERUM COMPLEMENT C3 AND C4 LEVELS CORRELATED NEGATIVELY WITH ANTI DS DNA LEVELS. FINALLY IN SEQUENTIAL SERA FROM 5 SLE PATIENTSTHE ANTI DS DNA …
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Blood, society and the gift: An ethnography of change in the gift relationship
… and how. Commentary about another body part – blood – is, it is argued here, less well developed (Sanner, 2001; Lock, 2004; Scheper-Hughes and Wacquant, 2006; Shaw, 2009). Blood and its modern-day sociology and anthropology is understood and limited by its links with both Titmuss’ altruism and …
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ΑΝΤΙΣΩΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΤΑ ΚΑΡΔΙΟΛΙΠΙΝΗΣ: ΚΛΙΝΙΚΗ ΣΗΜΑΣΙΑ
… RHEUMATIC DISEASES (ARD) ASWELL AS 267 HEALTHY BLOOD DONORS. HIGH LEVELS OF ANTI-CL WERE FOUND MAINLY IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSIS AND PATIENTS WITH OVERLAPPING SYNDROMES. THE PRESENCE OF ANTI-CL WAS CORRELATED WITH THE PRESENCE OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT (P<0.025) …
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AVALIAÇÃO SERIADA DOS EFEITOS CARDIORRESPIRATÓRIOS E DO VOLUME GLOBULAR POR MEIO DA FARMACOPUNTURA COM ACEPROMAZINA EM FELINOS DOMÉSTICOS.
… heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), capillary refill time (CRT), Response to manipulation and globular volume (GV) evaluation was carried out at M0 (before drug application), M1 (20 min), M2 (40 min), M3 (60 min), M4 (180 min) and M5 (360 min). The sedation was …
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