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Haydeh Alaoddolehei,, Sekineh Nourkojori, Narges Kalantari, Farahnaz Sadighian,
Volume 1, Issue 1 (1-2010)
Abstract
Background: Blood donation safety is one of the basic goals of the organization of blood transfusion in the world. Self-exclusion and failed options are additional screening tests to routine diagnostic tests which is performed to detect the transmitted infection through blood or blood products. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of these systems on the improvement of blood donation safety in Sari organization of blood transfusion.
Methods: A cross- sectional study was carried out using serologic results of donors who used confidential self-exclusion (CSE) and failed system and the results compared with usual donors (as control group). The donors were tested for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBs-Ag), hepatitis C Virus antibody (HCV-Ab) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-Ab). The information was obtained from the data bank of Sari organization of blood transfusion, 2005.
Results: The blood of 255 (1.5%) and 87 (0.5%) donors out of 17036 were excluded by failed and confidential self-exclusion methods respectively. The percentage of infection among the control group was 3% compared with 3.9% for the failed group and 9.2% for the self-exclusion donors.
Conclusion: The findings obtained from this study indicated that the confidential self-exclusion might be a suitable method to improve blood donation safety. It also revealed that it was possible to exclude infected donors at window period.
Haydeh Alaoddolehei, Haydeh Samiei, Farahnaz Sadighian, Narges Kalantari,
Volume 4, Issue 1 (1-2013)
Abstract
Background: Pregnant women take iron supplements in order to prevent iron deficiency anemia which may have undesirable effects for both the mother and fetus. This study aimed to compare the daily and intermittent dose of iron supplementation in blood and iron indices in healthy pregnant women.
Methods: In this clinical trial study, 145 healthy pregnant women were selected with Hbg%. The participants were randomly divided into two groups. Group 1 received daily iron supplement at 50 mg/day and group 2 received an intermittent dose of 3 times per week. Blood samples were assessed for complete blood count (Hb, Hct, RBC), iron, ferritin and zinc at baseline in the first trimester in all participants and the two groups were compared in regard to mean changes from baseline to the end of the study period in the third trimester. This clinical trial was registered in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (www.irct.ir) with registration number ID: 2012082810682N1.
Results: The incidence of iron deficiency anemia was 2.7% in both groups. The mean levels of Hb, Hct and RBC in the first trimester were 13.3 g/dl, 39.4% and 4.5 mil/ml3, respectively. At the end of the study, Hb, Hct, and RBC reduced significantly in both groups compared with baseline values (p<0.05). The difference from baseline in Hb and other blood indices did not differ significantly across the two groups.
Conclusion: These findings indicate that daily or intermittent administration of iron supplement to pregnant women has the same outcome. Regarding the side effects of iron in pregnancy, intermittent method seems preferable to daily intake.
Zahra Shahandeh, Hamid Shafi, Farahnaz Sadighian,
Volume 6, Issue 1 (1-2015)
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Background: Stphylococcus cohnii is an organism of coagulase negative species which is considered as normal flora. However, it has been isolated from urinary tract infections and surgical prostheses but its relation with staghorn stones has not been reported, yet.
Case Presentation: A 50-years-old woman presented with left renal staghorn stone in June 2014. She had bilateral staghorn stones 7 years ago. Staphylococcus cohnii subspecies urealyticum were detected from a removed stone. After 7 years, recurrence staghorn stone in her left kidney was diagnosed and patient underwent another surgery. The patient had several attacks of cystitis during these 7 years. The results of stone and urine cultures revealed staphylococcus cohnii subspecies urealyticum.
Conclusion: This case report emphasizes a possible association between staphylococcus cohnii subspecies urealyticum infection and recurrence renal staghhorn stone.
