Basma Doro, Wajdi M. Zawia, Walid M. Ramadan Husien, Nagi Meftah Gerbil Abdalla, Adam M. Rifai, Enase Dourou, Fatma J. Amar & Abdulwahab N. Aboughress·International Blood Research & Reviews·2015
Background: Post transfusion infections such as hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus infection continues to be an important public health concern with regard to blood transfusion in Libya and in Africa. This concern is related to the screening test. Objectives: The main aim...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/20272
Background: The Management of drug toxicities is increasingly becoming a crucial component of human immunodeficiency virus infection and improvement of antiretroviral therapy in developing countries like Ethiopia. The severity of hematological abnormalities in children who are ta...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/20197
Background: Transfusion is one of the most important elements of healthcare. In order to save human lives, 85 million blood units are used in the world annually. Access to blood products is a common problem throughout the world. Presently, demand is increasing significantly for b...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/17177
We report a patient who achieved hematologic response with Imatinib mesylate and is in chronic phase, but after several years developed neurologic symptoms and was eventually documented to have an isolated CNS relapse. The patient was treated with intrathecal chemotherapy to clea...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/17731
Aims: To enlighten both clinicians and Jehovah’s Witness patients on closed-circuit acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) and deliberate hypotension (DH) as safe and acceptable blood conservation strategies. Case Presentation: A 32 yr old male Jehovah’s Witness patient was schedu...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/20054
A cross sectional study was carried out to determine the relationship between glucose level, lipid profiles, and waist to height ratio (WHtR) among adults in a workplace setting. Respondents were recruited from government staff in two ministries, each from the federal territories...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/19616
Introduction: Anaemia is a significant public health problem in developing countries. Anaemia is never normal. The etiology of the anaemia should always be sought. Diagnosis of its cause and early treatment is crucial to improving the quality of life among affected persons. There...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/19078
Introduction: In acute leukemia, sepsis is potentially fatal. Pentraxin3 is a protein rapidly produced in response to primary inflammatory signals. It shows high levels in sepsis, specially associated with vascular and end-organ damage. Aim of the Work: To measure the level of PT...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/17737
Background: Iron deficiency is a common problem affecting children world-wide. It has been recognized to have an association with stroke. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia among children with sickle cell anaemia with cerebrovascular a...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/18154
Introduction: Thromboembolic incidents typically occur as deep vein thrombosis of the limbs and pulmonary embolism but can also occur in unusual sites such as cerebral or sinus, mesenteric, portal, hepatic renal and retinal veins. When thromboembolism occurs in any of these unusu...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/17982
Early diagnosis of disease is highly recommended for the treatment purposes by the clinicians. Thalassemia is a genetic disorder which can be inherited from the parents. Thalassemia is classified into two groups alpha thalassemia and beta thalassemia depending upon the severity o...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/16178
Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) remains a major health burden in Sub-Saharan Africa and the management requires regular monitoring of the patients. The monitoring includes routine assessment of haematological parameters and any deviation can best be appreciated when steady...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/18339
Susana Perez, Irma Bragós, Mariana Raviola, Arianna Pratti, Germán Detarsio, Sandra Zirone, Maria Eda Voss, Luciano Verón, Irma Acosta & Mara Ojeda·International Blood Research & Reviews·2015
Hemoglobin (Hb) Sabine is an unstable Hb variant that causes hemolytic anemia in heterozygous state, with inclusion bodies in the red blood cells (RBC). This hemoglobin is the result of a point mutation at codon 91(CTG)®(CCG) of the beta-globin gene. We report, for the first time...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/18559
Mohamed Kaled A. Shambesh, Ezzadin Areaf Franka, Faisal Fathalla Ismail, Nagi Meftah Gebril, Kamel Ahmed Azabi & Fatma Amar·International Blood Research & Reviews·2015
Background: Post transfusion hepatitis B (PTHB) continues to be an important public health concern with regard to blood transfusion in Libya and in Africa. This concern is related to the screening test which is still used but it is not enough to detect infective cases during wind...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/18364
Background: Acquired pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) is a rare disease characterized by anemia, severe reticulocytopenia and absent to low bone marrow erythroid precursor cells. There are well-described associations of this disorder with thymomas, lymphoproliferative disorders, auto...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/17728