(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.
Vein
Definition:
(n.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
(n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
(n.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.
(n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
(n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
(n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.
(n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course.
(n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein.
(v. t.) To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
Example Sentences:
(1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(2) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(3) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(4) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(5) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(7) An intravenous bolus of 300 micrograms.kg-1 of 3-desacetylvecuronium was rapidly injected into the jugular vein.
(8) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(9) Rapid injection of 2 m Ci TC 99m into a dorsal vein of the foot produced isotope phlebograms with a Dyna camera 2 C.
(10) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(11) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(12) The most frequent source of the pulmonary circulation thromboembolism was the lower limb veins.
(13) A patient with a history of hypertension had a combined central retinal artery and vein occlusion in one eye.
(14) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
(15) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
(16) A fiberoptic flow-directed catheter inserted into the hepatic vein continuously measures hepatic venous oxygen hemoglobin saturation (ShvO2).
(17) The angiographic demonstration of veins was similarly improved by the 2 drugs, the effect of 60 mug.
(18) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(19) In the other, the proximal fibula was excised and the epiphysis placed across the saphenous artery and vein in the groin.
(20) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.