Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) has created a pandemic throughout the world, most notably causing death owing to pneumonia and cytokine storm syndrome. The treatment is highly supportive with no definitive antiviral therapy and aims to alleviate hyperc...
Background: Prevention of stroke and thrombo-embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation(AF) using oral vitamin K antagonists is closely related to risk of bleeding. The HAS-BLED score has been evaluated as a predictor of major bleeding risk in various populations. The present...
Background: Bone Marrow Transplantation is a procedure that involves infusion of bone marrow cells to a recipient to treat bone marrow diseases like leukemia, sickle cell disease and autoimmune diseases. This medical intervention was first done in the early sixties and has since...
Aims: This study assessed some haemo-rheological parameters on individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis disease. Study Design: A cross sectional, case-control field based design was employed with a total of eighty-six subjects consisting of thirty-one males and fifty-five females ag...
Aims/ Objectives: To identify the transfusion triggers in hospitalized patients for judicial use of blood products. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Haematology, Ali Medical Centre Islamabad, The duration of the study was from Novemb...
Background: Aplastic anaemia is syndrome of bone marrow failure characterized by peripheral pancytopenia and loss of haemopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow. It is a relatively rare disease with high risk of death if untreated. Objective: To evaluate the incidence, management...
Aim: The study aimed to determine the percentage distribution and frequency of occurrence of P1 blood group antigen among indigenes of Ogoni ethnicity in Rivers State of Nigeria. Study Design: The study was a cross-sectional study conducted on Ogoni indigenes whose first generati...
The objective of this study was to identify the demographic and clinical features of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), followed at the Central Hospital of Yaoundé (HCY) over a period of 6 years (January 2012 to December 2018). Methodology: This retrospective analy...
Introduction: Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most common type of cutaneous T –cell lymphoma accounting for 50% of all cutaneous lymphomas. Sezary Syndrome (SS) and MF are closely related T –cell neoplasms. They are considered separately on the basis of clinical features and cell o...
Rakhi V. Jagdale, Jaydeep N. Pol, Zeba Nisar, Sachin J. Patil, Abhijit S. Pethkar & D. N. Lanjewar·Asian Hematology Research Journal·2020
Background: Primary Plasma Cell Leukaemia (PPCL) in young patients has been evaluated in very few studies in the English literature. The aim of this study is to describe a case of PPCL in a young HIV infected male associated with EBV. This is first such case in Indian literature....