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Continuous Manual Exchange Transfusion for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: An Efficient Method to Avoid Iron Overload
Published on: March 14, 2017
[Substitutive hemotransfusion in newborns with surgical pathologies]
Abstract:
Transfusion of blood components is not a method of choice at anemia, at the same time, hemotransfusion turns out often vitally indispensable at a pronounced reduction of hemoglobin especially in newborns. Indications for the transfusion of blood components demand that many factors of individual approach should be taken into consideration. Phenotyping of the blood of donor and of patient by using the standard serum methods and gel technology make it possible to avoid transfusion complications.
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