Injection Therapy for Nonvariceal Gastrointestinal Bleeding by Paul Kortan

“…Three controlled trials of endoscopic sclerosis in bleeding peptic ulcer disease showed decreased blood transfusions, surgery and hospital stay, but did not find any significant difference in mortality. …”
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Dead Collections by Mary Snyder Broussard

“…While he experiences many symptoms including cold skin and reliance on weekly blood transfusions, it is his life-threatening photophobia (aversion to sunlight) that becomes a serious impairment to commuting to and from work. …”
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Case report: Successful treatment of hyperbaric oxygen for radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis in a 95-year-old patient with bladder cancer by Li Lin, Li Lin, Man He, Yanyan Zeng, Xiaoxiao Ni, Yequn Guo, Xiaojuan Xie, Lingling Sun, Huai Huang

“…As of 26 October 2023, it is noteworthy that the patient’s hemoglobin level has restored to the pre-hematuria level (106 g/L) with no need for blood transfusions for 8 consecutive months. Moreover, there was no recurrence of hematuria during the follow-up period. …”
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Humoral Acute Rejection in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura by Ana Paola Rico-Portillo, José Ignacio Cerrillos-Gutierrez, Jorge Andrade-Sierra, Alfredo Gutiérrez-Govea, Enrique Rojas-Campos, Claudia Alejandra Mendoza-Cerpa, Benjamín Gómez-Navarro

“…A 47-year-old male was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in 2011; idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was also diagnosed in 2011 refractory to medical treatment and finally treated with splenectomy (2017) without relapses since that date, 5 blood transfusions, and 4 platelet apheresis in 2017. Renal transplant from a living related donor (brother), ABO compatible, crossmatch were negative, sharing 1 haplotype. …”
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Treatment of Severe Refractory Hematuria due to Radiation-Induced Hemorrhagic Cystitis with Dexamethasone by José Carlos Rodrigues Nascimento, Márcio Wilker Soares Campelo, Iuri Arruda Aragão, José Fernando Bastos de Moura, Lúcio Flávio Gonzaga Silva, Reinaldo Barreto Oriá

“…During 45 days of hospitalization, the patient underwent two cystoscopic procedures for urinary bladder flocculation, whole blood transfusions, and one platelet apheresis. None of these interventions led to clinical resolution. …”
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Potential Effects of Silymarin and Its Flavonolignan Components in Patients with β-Thalassemia Major: A Comprehensive Review in 2015 by Hadi Darvishi Khezri, Ebrahim Salehifar, Mehrnoush Kosaryan, Aily Aliasgharian, Hossein Jalali, Arash Hadian Amree

“…This defect results in red blood cells lysis and chronic anemia that can be treated by multiple blood transfusions and iron chelation therapy. Without iron chelation therapy, iron overload will cause lots of complications in patients. …”
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Perinatal Lethal Gaucher Disease due to RecNcil Recombinant Mutation in the GBA Gene Presenting with Hydrops Fetalis and Severe Congenital Anemia by Ekta Bhutada, Timothy Pyragius, Scott G. Petersen, Frans Niemann, Admire Matsika

“…This was treated with multiple in utero blood transfusions with no clinically significant improvement and intrauterine death occurred at 28 weeks. …”
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Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for a Rendu-Osler-Weber Disease Patient with Recurrent Severe Epistaxis: A Case Report by Maximilian Niyazi, Marco-Domenico Caversaccio, Patrick Dubach, Andreas Geretschläger, Andreas Arnold, Claus Belka, Daniel M. Aebersold, Norbert M. Blumstein

“…We present a case of a Rendu-Osler-Weber disease patient with recurrent life threatening epistaxis demanding multiple blood transfusions despite of repetitive endoscopic laser and electrocoagulations, endovascular embolisation, septodermoplasty, and long-term intranasal dressings. …”
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EPO-Mimetic Peptide Pegmolesatide Therapy for Pure Red Cell Aplasia in a Patient with Non-dialysis-dependent Type 1 Diabetic Nephropathy: A Case Report by Qiong Chen, Xuan Liu, Juan Wang, Man Yang, Qiu-ling Fan

“…Enarodustat and roxadustat were administered successively after discontinuation of EPO, but anemia did not improve, and the patient was maintained with weekly blood transfusions. Subsequently, the EPO-mimetic peptide pegmolesatide was administered, and the patient’s hemoglobin started to increase after 1 week and increased from 50 g/L to 92 g/L over approximately 3 months. …”
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𝛽-Thalassemia: HiJAKing Ineffective Erythropoiesis and Iron Overload by Luca Melchiori, Sara Gardenghi, Stefano Rivella

“…The defects involved are extremely heterogeneous and give rise to a large phenotypic spectrum, with patients that are almost asymptomatic to cases in which regular blood transfusions are required to sustain life. As a result of the inefficient synthesis of 𝛽-globin, the patients suffer from chronic anemia due to a process called ineffective erythropoiesis (IE). …”
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Surgical treatment of anaemia – is it possible? Large hiatal hernia as a cause of severe iron-deficiency anaemia by Wiktoria B. Feret, Magdalena Nalewajska, Kazimierz Ciechanowski

“…She had previously been repeatedly hospitalized for symptomatic microcytic anaemia with the need for blood transfusions and IV iron infusions because she did not tolerate oral iron supplementation.…”
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An unstable patient with a large sucking chest wound managed with gauze packing for preventing tension and bleeding control before surgery in Korea: a case report by Chang-Sin Lee, Min-Jeong Cho, Tae-Wook Noh, Nak-Jun Choi, Jun-Min Cho

“…Immediate medical interventions were undertaken, including blood transfusions and endotracheal intubation. To prevent tension and control bleeding, gauze packing was applied directly through the large open wound. …”
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Epitope-Driven Vaccine Development for Zika Virus: A Bioinformatics Approach by Riska Ayu Sutriyansyah, Muhamad Hilmi Ihsanul Iman, Cahya Ajeng Valenta Tresna Sulung, Nelly Indira Kusuma Wardani, Arif Nur Muhammad Ansori

“…ZIKV is a member of the Flaviviridae family, which can spread through Aedes mosquitoes, sexual intercourse, from mother to fetus, and blood transfusions. The genetic material is single-stranded RNA with positive polarity. …”
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A 2-decade survival from a double hemolytic disease: A case of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria with hemoglobinopathy by Aria Namiq Chaqmachi, Brwa Ali Hussein

“…We will discuss therapeutic hurdles, possible treatment choices, and the clinical journey of the patient with a classical type of PNH with access only to steroids, blood transfusions, and supplements.…”
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THALIDOMIDE AMELIORATES ERYTHROPOIESIS AND IRON HOMEOSTASIS IN TRANSFUSION-DEPENDENT β-THALASSEMIA by Kun Yang, Jian Xiao

“…Thalidomide is a therapeutic option for patients with β-­thalassemia by increasing fetal hemoglobin and thereby reducing the requirement for blood transfusions. However, information on changes in erythropoiesis and iron homeostasis during thalidomide treatment is lacking. …”
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Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy in the Morbidly Obese Patient by Jennifer Yates, Ravi Munver, Ihor Sawczuk

“…Positive margins were noted in 2 (13%) patients, each with pT3 disease. There were no blood transfusions, open conversions, or Clavien Grade II or higher complications. …”
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Management of Cervical Fibroid during the Reproductive Period by Remon Keriakos, Mark Maher

“…She had many admissions during pregnancy due to bleeding from the fibroid, and in one occasion she had blood transfusions. The fibroid increased in size to become larger than the head of the baby. …”
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Barriers to Testing and Treatment for Chagas Disease among Latino Immigrants in Georgia by Rebecca M. Minneman, Monique M. Hennink, Andrea Nicholls, Sahar S. Salek, Francisco S. Palomeque, Amina Khawja, Lauren C. Albor, Chester C. Pennock, Juan S. Leon

“…The lack of testing and treatment of Chagas disease (CD), caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, amongst infected immigrants in the USA increases the risk of serious health complications and transmission (congenital or via blood transfusions). Goal. Our goal was to identify the barriers to testing and treatment of CD and understand the process of seeking healthcare amongst Latino immigrants in Georgia. …”
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Extracellular vesicles in thalassemia: Mechanisms, implications, and therapeutic potential by Shahzad Ali Jiskani

“…The clinical spectrum of thalassemia is broad, ranging from severe and persistent anemia that necessitates consistent blood transfusions to mild, asymptomatic conditions. Key contributors to thalassemia complications, particularly, in patients with β-thalassemia major, are ineffective erythropoiesis and iron overload. …”
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Vesicles Generated during Storage of Red Blood Cells Enhance the Generation of Radical Oxygen Speciesin Activated Neutrophils by Herbert Jank, Ulrich Salzer

“…Vsto vesicles of blood transfusions have been shown to deliver glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked proteins to recipient erythrocytes, to display prothrombotic activity, and to have an inhibitory effect on macrophages. …”
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