(n.) The science which treats of the blood. Same as Hematology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(2) It is suggested that the results indicate the need for full haematological screening of all patients with recurrent aphthae.
(3) There were no biochemical or haematological abnormalities caused by prazosin but on continued therapy 16 patients developed tolerance to its effect.
(4) Haematological findings in 9 dogs with splenic or hepatic haemangiosarcoma included a mild to moderate normochromic anaemia, neutrophilia, thrombocytopaenia, poikilocytosis and increased target cells.
(5) Haematological and blood biochemical changes in the sheep, as well as fecundity of gastrointestinal nematodes, suggested the hosts were immunosuppressed.
(6) 24 CLL patients were subjected to routine haematological and clinical investigation.
(7) Other toxicities have included liver function abnormalities, hypotension, transient neurological changes and haematological abnormalities.
(8) The only haematological abnormality in these patients was the presence of few atypical lymphoid cells in the peripheral blood.
(9) Non-haematological side effects were most pronounced in the 100% group.
(10) There were no significant effects on the haematology, serum chemistry and urinalysis and no compound-related effects on survival.
(11) The red blood cell (RBC) glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity and routine haematological parameters were measured in 38 healthy north Italian full-term pregnant women and in their newborn infants.
(12) Review of the use of platelet concentrates in a large haematology unit showed lack of adherence to this threshold with the use of platelet transfusions at higher platelet counts.
(13) He uses as a basis the CDC classification of HIV infections and explains on different models of clinical situations mechanisms which lead to haematological, neurological, immunological, pneumological, gastroenterological, oncological and rheumatological symptomatology.
(14) Analysis of the clinical features, the operative, bacteriological and haematological findings is made and discussed in detail.
(15) Patients who achieved haematological remission on a standard chemotherapy regimen either received or did not receive craniospinal irradiation plus intrathecal methotrexate.Of the 80 patients who did not receive prophylactic C.N.S.
(16) Haematological changes after renal transplantation in 76 patients were reviewed and the differences observed between patients treated with cyclosporin-A and prednisolone and those treated with azathioprine and prednisolone were compared.
(17) The diagnosis of CLL demanded the demonstration of an abnormally low immunoglobulin level and impaired lymphocyte responsiveness to PHA by blast transformation or 3H-thymidine incorporation, in addition to the usual haematological findings.
(18) These drugs are contraindicated in patients with ulcers, with haematological diseases, and with severe cirrhosis.
(19) Given the increasing incidence of AIDS and the frequency of haematological abnormalities in this condition, the practising clinician should have a high index of suspicion when confronted by any unexplained haematological abnormality.
(20) The haematological profile demonstrated a macrocytic normochromic anaemia caused possibly by a folic acid deficiency as a result of the food restriction.
Phlebotomy
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is of clinical importance as IHC can be successfully treated by phlebotomy.
(2) PPMM occurred in about the same incidence in the patients treated with myelosuppressive therapy as by phlebotomy alone, the spent phase occurring in 16 patients treated by phlebotomy alone, 11 with chlorambucil, and 12 with 32P.
(3) The ferritin content of liver and spleen in normal and iron-loaded rats decreased during repeated phlebotomy.
(4) A marked reduction in the area covered by adventitial cells was recorded coinciding with the early reticulocyte response to phlebotomy.
(5) Chloroquine may be used as a provocative diagnostic test for patients with a questionably latent PCT but this is safe if phlebotomy is performed beforehand.
(6) One group received recombinant human erythropoietin to increase hematocrit, and another group was subjected to phlebotomy and fed a low-iron diet to induce anemia.
(7) Twenty-five patients with overt clinical and biochemical findings of porphyria cutanea tarda took part in a study comparing intensive phlebotomy with slow subcutaneous desferrioxamine treatment.
(8) Erythrocyte and plasma ferritin was followed in 13 patients with iron overload undergoing phlebotomies for at least 6 months in comparison with untreated patients and normal males.
(9) A multicompartmental model of erythrokinetics and bilirubin production has been developed to predict the consequences of chronic phlebotomy on daily bilirubin turnover.
(10) Hb values gradually increased, but did not completely recover to pre-phlebotomy levels by day 56.
(11) The two groups had similar mean predonation values of internal carotid flow velocity (ICFV): blood donation was followed in both groups by a slight, transient decrease of ICFV at the end of phlebotomy, due to donation-induced hypovolemia, and then by an increase of ICFV lasting 7 to 10 days.
(12) We conclude that the technical skills of phlebotomists and patient satisfaction with phlebotomy are outstanding, but that patient discomfort from the procedure needs to be minimized.
(13) It is emphasized that serum ferritin measurements are useful for monitoring of intensive phlebotomy therapy, and in particular to indicate the end of therapy before anemia develops.
(14) He was already diagnosed as having erythrocytosis secondary to pulmonary fibrosis 4 years previously and the values of his hematocrit (Ht) were maintained between 44.5 and 62.9% by repeated phlebotomy.
(15) Serum levels of transferrin receptor and erythropoietin were determined in 2 patients with hereditary hemochromatosis undergoing phlebotomy therapy.
(16) They received phlebotomies, plasmapheresis, and transfusions of erythrocytes and platelets.
(17) The operation was performed 2 weeks after the last phlebotomy.
(18) For in vitro studies, a triplet study design was used, in which WBC-reduced PCs were matched to standard PCs and to WBC-enriched PCs obtained from the same donor at the same phlebotomy.
(19) Although there was an increase in the level of serum immunoreactive erythropoietin with successive phlebotomies, the increase was not substantially out of the normal range.
(20) Two effective and reliable methods exist - repeated phlebotomy therapy and prolonged low-dose chloroquine.