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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: blood transfusions + blood + transfusions  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/5/2008)

Cutting back transfusions reduces costs, helps patients
Toronto Star,  Canada -
There are numerous real, if unlikely, medical dangers associated with blood transfusions. These range from a one in 100 chance of a minor allergic reaction ...
Blood drive kicks off today in Rosewood
Urbana Daily Citizen, OH -
Every two seconds someone uses a life-saving blood product. For those who need transfusions, two seconds can mean a lifetime. The demand on the nation's ...
IV day hospital is a plus for patients at St. Joe's
Telegraph-Journal, Canada -
Today, the IV day hospital offers an alternate location for traditional in-patient therapies to take place, including blood transfusions, ...
Many blood transfusions may increase risks, doctors warn
Guardian, UK - Apr 23, 2008
More than half of blood transfusions may do more harm than good, with some patients facing a six-fold greater risk of dying following surgery because of ...
Girl, 8 , battles blood disorder
Trinidad News, Trinidad and Tobago - May 1, 2008
Other children with this form of the disease require blood transfusions regularly. In these children, low or falling haemoglobin levels greatly reduce the ...
Give Blood
Teen Ink - May 2, 2008
Blood transfusions don?t just help leukemia patients; they help accident victims, those undergoing chemotherapy, those having surgery, and many others. ...

Kuwait Times
Conference focus on Hepatitis C patients
Kuwait Times, Kuwait -
At intermediate risk (but who should still be tested) include people who have received blood transfusions prior to 1992, haemodialysis patients, ...
Could blood transfusions cause harm?
EurekAlert (press release), DC - Apr 23, 2008
No soul of you shall eat blood.? So says the Bible?s book of Leviticus, and it is for this reason that Jehovah?s Witnesses shun blood transfusions. ...
Sick canines, felines need blood transfusions too
Guadalajara Colony Reporter, Mexico - Apr 25, 2008
There are seven types of canine blood, three of which (1.1, 1.2, and 7) are not recommended for transfusions because they produce powerful reactions in ...
Thalassemia Patients Call for More Blood Donations
Al-Bawaba, Jordan - Apr 23, 2008
Thalassemia carriers should not marry other carriers as they risk producing children with Thalassemia Major who will require weekly blood transfusions for ...
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[BOOK] Blood transfusion in clinical medicine
PL Mollison? - 1972 - doi.wiley.com
BOOKS RECEIVED Blood transfusion in clinical medicine By P. L. MOLLISON. 1951. ... deals
with the various aspects of transfusion of blood and blood const,ituents. ...

Transmission of BSE by blood transfusion in sheep -
F Houston, JD Foster, A Chong, N Hunter, CJ … - The Lancet, 2000 - Elsevier
... Although UK blood transfusions are leucodepleted?a possible protective measure against
any risk from blood transmission?this report suggests that blood ...

Blood Transfusions and Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer -
O Busch, W Hop, MH van Papendrecht, RL Marquet, J … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1993 - content.nejm.org
... Next Next. Blood Transfusions and Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer. Olivier Busch,
Wim Hop, Marlene Hoynck van Papendrecht, Richard L. Marquet, and Johannes Jeekel ...

Possible transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by blood transfusion -
CA Llewelyn, PE Hewitt, RSG Knight, K Amar, S … - The Lancet, 2004 - Elsevier
... The surviving recipients of blood transfusions donated by individuals who later
developed vCJD may be at increased risk of developing vCJD and, after ...

Anemia and Blood Transfusion in Critically Ill Patients -
JL Vincent, JF Baron, K Reinhart, L Gattinoni, L … - JAMA, 2002 - Am Med Assoc
... Anemia and Blood Transfusion in Critically Ill Patients ... Anemia is typically treated
with blood transfusions to help maintain adequate oxygen delivery. ...

Beneficial effect of autologous blood transfusion on infectious complications after colorectal … -
MM Heiss, W Mempel, KW Jauch, C Delanoff, G Mayer, … - Lancet, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... 62 patients were assigned to receive homologous blood if blood transfusions were
needed during operation, and the other 58 to receive their own predeposited ...

Genomic structure of an attenuated quasi species of HIV-1 from a blood transfusion donor and … -
NJ Deacon, A Tsykin, A Solomon, K Smith, M Ludford … - Science, 1995 - sciencemag.org
... ADVERTISEMENT. Click Me! Reports. Genomic Structure of an Attenuated Quasi Species
of HIV-1 from a Blood Transfusion Donor and Recipients. ...

Blood transfusion. An independent risk factor for postinjury multiple organ failure -
FA Moore, EE Moore, A Sauaia - Archives of Surgery, 1997 - Am Med Assoc
... Blood transfusion. ... INTERVENTIONS: None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The relationship of
blood transfusions and other shock indexes with the outcome variable, MOF. ...

Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Determinants of Survival After Liver Resection for Metastatic … -
CB ROSEN, DM NAGORNEY, HF TASWELL, SL HELGESON, DM … - Annals of Surgery, 1992 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... Perioperative blood transfusions are associated with decreased time to recurrence
and decreased survival after resection of colorectal liver metastases. ...

… first results of a randomized study of autologous versus allogeneic blood transfusion in colorectal … -
MM Heiss, W Mempel, C Delanoff, KW Jauch, C Gabka, … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1994 - jco.ascopubs.org
... PURPOSE: Allogeneic blood transfusions have reportedly been associated with
a poor prognosis in patients with curatively resected cancer. ...

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Blood Transfusions Are Unlikely To Spread Cancer
Individuals who receive blood transfusions from donors with undiagnosed cancers are at no higher risk of developing malignant disease than people who receive blood from donors without cancer, according to the results of a retrospective study published in The Lancet last month.

Before donated blood can be used in a clinical setting, it must go through a rigorous battery of tests to ensure that no diseases are passed between the donor and recipient. However, whereas the risk of transmission of infectious agents is well established and appropriate precautions are routinely taken, establishing whether there is also a possibility of transmission of chronic diseases such as cancer through blood transfusions has been more difficult.
There is some evidence to support the theory that cancers might be transmissible through blood. Even if a tumour is too small to be detected, it will shed millions of cells into the circulation every day that may have the potential to establish new malignancies within the donor or blood recipient. Reports of transmission of cancer cells from needles or surgical instruments demonstrate that tumours cells have the capability to be transplanted to, and develop in, healthy recipients. And there is some data to show that transfused patients are at increased risk of cancers, particularly non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

To test some of these ideas, Gustaf Edgren and colleagues set out to investigate whether there is a history of increased cancer diagnoses among individuals that receive blood transfusions from people who donate blood while unaware of their cancers. Using registry data from Sweden and Denmark , the authors created a database from which they identified a group of "exposed" individuals, who had received donated blood from a person who was diagnosed with cancer less than 5 years after giving blood.

The study population comprised all individuals with no history of malignant disease who had received at least one unit of whole blood, erythrocytes, plasma or platelets between 1968 and 2002. All blood donors who contributed to these transfusions were traced through population and health registers and donors who were subsequently diagnosed with a malignancy within 5 years of the blood donation were deemed to harbour a sub-clinical malignancy at the time of donation. The resulting group of exposed individuals numbered 12 012; 342 082 people who received blood from non-precancerous donors were classed as unexposed.

Recipients of blood from people with a known history of cancer were excluded from the analysis as were those for whom 5 years of follow up was not available. All recipients were followed for cancer occurrence using the Swedish and Danish cancer registries. Any recipients diagnosed with cancer within 6 months of transfusion were excluded.

The researchers identified 978 cases of cancer among all the blood recipients but after statistical analysis they found no excess risk of cancer overall among individuals who had received one or more blood products from a precancerous blood donor. The relative risk was not substantially affected by sex age, calendar period, or number of transfusions. What is more, there was no excess risk when patients who received blood from people with cancers at sites that are thought to have the highest risk of metastasising through blood---the lung, liver, skeleton, and central nervous system---were combined.
An additional finding was that the cancer incidence among the 9377 recipients of blood from donors with a previous diagnosis of cancer who were excluded from the main analysis did not differ from that among recipients of blood from non-cancerous donors. "Since we found no increased cancer risk associated with transfusions from an admittedly limited number of donors with a previous history of cancer, it would seem that long-term cancer survivors might be a fairly safe donor group," concluded the authors.

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