Rajendra Chaudhary

..The aim of the present study was to investigate oxidative injury to red cells during storage for 28 days and its correlation with markers of red cell membrane damage...

..Six of 100 donors complained of hypocalcemic symptoms. The operational flow chart designed in this study was found to be simple and easy to adapt by blood transfusion services in this country...

..Though, quality of apheresis product in terms of yield is comparable with all the machines, there are differences in the systems with regard to donor safety, procedure time and donor retention...

..Identification of such factors may help in selecting donors to obtain higher platelet yields and consequently better clinical outcome...

..A rapid response to platelet and fresh frozen plasma (FFP) transfusion was observed in all cases. However, inappropriate transfusion was a major concern as transfusion of 21.5% platelet concentrates was considered inappropriate...

..We compared the levels of these cytokines in stored platelet preparations prepared by two methods. Effect of pre-storage leucofiltration on these cytokine levels was also studied...

..We conclude that FC is more sensitive test than the CTT and helps in the serological diagnosis of Coombs negative AIHA. However, in resource poor settings, GT DAT can be a good alternative to FC...

..We planned this prospective study to observe the effects of automated plateletpheresis on normal haematological values of healthy donors and to determine whether the haematological alterations had any clinical consequences...

..Most common reason for unjustified prophylactic transfusion was unavailability of pre-transfusion platelet count. Concurrent screening of request forms to ensure optimized PLT usage may further decrease platelet misuse at our center...

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..Inadequate immunoprophylaxis is the main reason. Adequate dose calculation of anti-D Ig is possible through estimation of correct feto-maternal hemorrhage (FMH) volume. In this regard, different methods have been used...

..4% (kappa = 0.926) using polyspecific AHG and 95.7% (kappa = 0.379) with monospecific anti-IgG. We conclude that GT is a better alternative to CTT for detecting red cell bound antibodies in various clinical conditions...

..3%) were males with a mean age of 31.2 yr. No donor was found to have complete IgA deficiency; however, 257 (6.7%) had partial IgA deficiency. INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSION: Our study shows that IgA deficiency is rare in north India...

..In the year 2002, we participated in the External Quality Assessment Scheme (EQAS) under the World Health Organization (WHO), Bureau of Laboratory Quality Standards, Thailand...

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..Physician education programmes and a monitoring system to ensure strict adherence to the established guidelines are required to reduce undue waste of this blood component...

..We planned to establish a suitable adsorption technique in our transfusion service which can remove all autoantibodies and detect underlying alloantibodies rapidly, cheaply and effectively...

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..We have observed an increment of 92.76% in the dPDW while it was 71% in the dMPV. This clearly shows that the dPDW is a better marker of quality control when compared to the dMPV during processing and storage of platelet concentrates...

..Despite the wide range of methods available for measurement of hemoglobin, no single technique has emerged as the most appropriate and ideal for a blood donation setup...

..Gel technology helps the immunohematologist to diagnose and serologically characterize AIHA patient with regard to red-cell-bound autoantibodies' class, subclass, and titer as these correlate with in vivo hemolysis...

..We have investigated oxidative injury to gamma-irradiated red cells by measuring markers of oxidative injury and its correlation with red cell membrane damage...

..It is well known that young age, low weight, and first time donation status increase the probability of having a reaction but the effect of these 'risk' factors on the grade of reaction has not been well studied...

..We report here a case of Haemolytic disease of newborn (HDN) due to anti-Kp(b), which manifested as severe anaemia at the age of 1 month...

..Fever, bleeding, sepsis, disseminated intravascular coagulation and cyclosporine use, though more common in the patients with refractoriness they were not statistically significant...