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Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Sickle Cell Disease Patients Undergoing Automated Red Blood Cell Exchange in the USA, France and the UK
ConclusionSickle cell disease patients that require chronic blood transfusion experience better health-related quality of life when they are treated with automated red blood cell exchange versus simple transfusion. This observation is supported by the opinion of their treating physicians.DisclosuresDierick: Terumo BCT: Employment. Roig: Terumo BCT: Employment.
Source: Blood - November 21, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Dierick, K., Roig, J. Tags: 903. Outcomes Research-Non-Malignant Hematology Source Type: research

Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: Clinical, Radiological, Biological, and Etiological Characteristics of a French Prospective Cohort (FPCCVT) —Comparison With ISCVT Cohort
Conclusions: We demonstrated that the FPCCVT cohort had radiological, biological, and etiological characteristics similar to the historical ISCVT cohort. Nevertheless, the initial clinical presentation was less severe in our study probably due to an improvement in diagnostic methods between the two studies.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - November 8, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

C-reactive protein and D-dimer in cerebral vein thrombosis: Relation to clinical and imaging characteristics as well as outcomes in a French cohort study
CONCLUSION: Two widely available biomarkers measured upon admission, especially hs-CRP, could help predict bad prognosis in CVST in addition to patient characteristics. These results need to be validated in other cohorts.PMID:37138790 | PMC:PMC10149398 | DOI:10.1016/j.rpth.2023.100130
Source: Thrombosis and Haemostasis - May 4, 2023 Category: Hematology Authors: Paul Billoir Virginie Siguret Elisabeth Masson Fron Ludovic Drouet Isabelle Crassard Rapha ël Marlu Marianne Barbieux-Guillot Pierre-Emmanuel Morange Emmanuelle Robinet Catherine Metzger Val érie Wolff Elisabeth Andr é-Kerneis Fr édéric Klapczynski B Source Type: research

When does life end? New organ donation strategy fuels debate
On a chilly holiday Monday in January 2020, a medical milestone passed largely unnoticed. In a New York City operating room, surgeons gently removed the heart from a 43-year-old man who had died and shuttled it steps away to a patient in desperate need of a new one. More than 3500 people in the United States receive a new heart each year. But this case was different—the first of its kind in the country. “It took us 6 months to prepare,” says Nader Moazami, surgical head of heart transplantation at New York University (NYU) Langone Health, where the operation took place. The run-up included oversight from an ethi...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 11, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news