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- Title
Treatment of life-threatening post-haemorrhagic anaemia with cell-free haemoglobin solution in an adolescent Jehovah's Witness.
- Authors
Anton, Natalie; Hitzler, Johann K.; Kavanagh, Brian P.
- Abstract
Summary. Severe blood loss carries an increased risk of a fatal outcome in patients who do not consent to the use of blood products. For patients who base this decision on a religious belief system, such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, important distinctions may exist between the appropriateness of various blood products. We describe the first successful use of purified human cell-free haemoglobin solution in a paediatric patient, in this case in the management of life-threatening anaemia in a 14-year-old female Jehovah's Witness with immune thrombocytopenia.
- Subjects
HEMORRHAGIC diseases; ANEMIA
- Publication
British Journal of Haematology, 2002, Vol 118, Issue 4, p1183
- ISSN
0007-1048
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2141.2002.03694.x