PMID: 18409359Apr 16, 2008Paper

Severe, life-threatening renal anemia treatment in patients who do not accept heterologous blood transfusion for religious reasons--case report

Przegla̧d lekarski
Andrzej J JaroszyńskiAndrzej Ksiazek

Abstract

The management of severe anemia in patients who do not accept heterologous blood transfusion for religious reasons presents many different challenges both at the level of treatment strategy and ethics. Recently, new interventional treatment strategies have become available, including human and bovine hemoglobin substitutes and high-dose recombinant human erythropoietin. We present the successful management of two Jehovah's Witnesses patients with severe, life-threatening anemia caused by chronic renal failure and exacerbated by sepsis.

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