Rasika Setia, Mitu Dogra, Gokhula Prasath Thangavel, Ramesh Yadav, Amena Ebadur Rahman, Atul Bhasin, Rajesh Kumar Pande, Sandeep Nayar, R. K. Singal, Anil Vardani, Deepak Gargi Pande, R. N. Saini, Tribhuvan GulatI, Vivek Pal Singh, Sunny Kalra, Gagan Anand, Manish Garg, Santosh Ghai & N. M. Agarwal·International Blood Research & Reviews·2021
Background: COVID-19 pandemic continues threatening the world with no effective treatment to tackle the menace. Till date, there is conflicting evidence on efficacy of CP in reducing COVID-19 related mortality. The objective of this study was to see disease progression and 7, 14...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i430158
Anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells represent a novel immunotherapy that has shown remarkable success in the treatment of adult relapsed or refractory (R/R) B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, adult R/R mantle cell lymphoma, and R/R acute paediatric lymphoblastic leukaem...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i430157
Statins are lipid-lowering agents. They also have immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic, and anti-proliferative functions. In this context, they are demonstrated to have beneficial effects on mortality in several malignancies including esophageal, breast, lung, liv...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i430156
COVID-19 is a virus of the species of the Family coronaviridae known as as SARS-COV-2. This virus is easily contracted and/transmitted from an infected person to another healthy individual and has continued to spread rapidly. The aim of this review is to identify laboratory metho...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i430155
Blood transfusion is oftentimes life-saving but associated with risks which ought to be disclosed by the health care provider as an ethical obligation and legal requirement. The practice of informed consent to transfusion medicine is quite new and few studies have comprehensively...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i330154
Aims: To determine the survival of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and COVID-19. Study Design: Prospective, analytical and relational. Place and Duration of Study: Hematology department, Hospital of Specialties, High Specialty Medical Unit, National Medical Center "Gra...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i330153
Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the Gene Frequencies of Human Platelet Alloantigens in Rivers-State, Nigeria based on ABO/Rhesus blood groups distribution Study Design: A randomized controlled trial. Place and Duration of Study: Rivers State University Medical Centre,...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i330152
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic raised a host of challenges to modern medicine. Key amongst these were in diagnostics, as most SARS-CoV-2 assays had been rapidly developed and released under emergency-use authorization with limited validation on clinical samples and secondly,...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i330151
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in pediatric age is rare in the literature. It is a common disease of older adults, characterized by clonal proliferation and progressive accumulation of monoclonal B-cell lymphocytes. The diagnosis is established by immunophenotyping and progno...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i330150
Aim: In this study, the haematology, serum antioxidant enzymes, and uric acid concentrations in prostatic disease patients attending the Nephrology Department of Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba were evaluated. Methodology: A total of one hundred and ten (110) adult m...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i230149
Introduction: So far, study on medical student’s knowledge regarding human normal flora is not available in the internet. Normal flora is initially beneficial for their host, but what was once part of the normal flora can later become dangerous to their host, e.g become the agent...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i230148
Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in some haematological parameters in sickle cell anaemia subjects in Rivers State. Study Design: This study is a cross-sectional observational study. Place and Duration of Study: University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Ri...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i230147
We evaluated the treatment of morphine by intravenous patient controlled analgesia versus intermittent subcutaneous routes on patients with sickle cell disease developing severe vaso-occlusivecrisis. Objectives: The primary objective was to compare intravenous patient controlled...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i230146
Anemia is a condition of decreased red blood cell number or hemoglobin concentration, or of disturbance in their function, ultimately leading to decreased oxygen transport to tissues. Many factors and diseases may lead to anemia, with wide manifestations systemically as well as o...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i230145
Global systemic fungal infection, including meningeal cryptococcosis caused by the encapsulated yeast Cryptococcus spp, continue to rise in number, especially among HIV infected individuals. Infection occur through inhalation of spore which is abundant in the environment. Initial...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i130144