Disease relevance of Red Cross

• Serologic evidence of Yersinia enterocolitica infection was sought by agglutination testing in serum samples from several populations, including Haida Indians, Red Cross blood donors, and Caucasian patients with rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and Reiter's syndrome [1].
• SETTING: Thai Red Cross zidovudine donation program to reduce vertical HIV transmission [2].
• Over a 20-month period, 3 adult and 6 pediatric patients were diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) at Groote Schuur and Red Cross Hospitals in Cape Town. All 9 GBS patients had Campylobacter jejuni biotype 2, serotype O:41 in their stools [3].
• We report five cases encountered amongst 173 long-term follow-up patients treated for classical Hirschsprung's disease between 1957 and 1990 at the Red Cross Children's Hospital, Cape Town, and review the current literature [4].
• The American Red Cross has developed an immunoaffinity chromatography method to purify human coagulation Factor IX to high levels of purity for therapeutic treatment of hemophilia B [5].

High impact information on Red Cross

• Molecules hybrid for a 1300-nucleotide deletion in the central portion of the lambda genome were detected at significant levels in DNA isolated from both red+ and red- crosses in which recA function was present [6].
• Human prothrombin has been purified from American Red Cross Factor IX concentrates [7].
• Such reactivity was not found in normal (Red Cross) sera [8].
• METHODS: Imipenem-resistant A. baumannii clinical and environmental isolates were collected in the ICU of the Red Cross General Hospital, Athens, Greece between March and October 2002 [9].
• BACKGROUND: In January 2003, blood center personnel in the American Red Cross, Southern Region in Atlanta, noticed whitish particulate material (WPM) that had not been observed previously in several units of red blood cells (RBCs) [10].

Biological context of Red Cross

• The B300 x Hampshire Red cross exhibited pronounced cell death within cardiac neural crest populations but had normal development of the heart and aortic arches [11].
• This study describes the epidemiology and patterns of moderate to severe burn injuries (%BSA>or=20-90) treated at the Italian Red Cross Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, during the medical mission of the tenth Italian Red Cross Contingent, from 3 April to 19 May 2004 [12].

Anatomical context of Red Cross

• However, an unacceptable proportion of all SCF units failed to meet American Red Cross standards for leukocyte-poor blood and studies of factors influencing leukocyte depletion were undertaken [13].
• SETTING: Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town. SUBJECTS: Thirteen children with kwashiorkor, 6 with marasmus and 16 well-nourished children underwent bone marrow examination [14].

Associations of Red Cross with chemical compounds

• RESULTS: Holding the ethanol dose and exposure stage constant, strains were classified into very sensitive (Babcock ISA, HyLine W98, Babcock B300/Hampshire Red cross [BxHR]), moderately sensitive (Spafas, HyLine W36, Babcock B300), and nonresponsive (DeKalb White and Black, Shaver White and 2000, DcKalb White/Hampshire Red cross) [15].
• Ketamine anaesthesia with spontaneous breathing of air is a common method of anaesthesia in Red Cross hospitals for war wounded [16].
• This article also focuses on the recruitment of dietitians by the American Red Cross, the dietitians' response, and the conditions under which they worked in Europe. Several individuals, including Mary Pascoe (later Huddleson), Marjorie Hulsizer (later Copher), Mary de Garmo (later Bryan), and Lenna Frances Cooper, are featured [17].
• Glucose as an adjunct triage tool to the Red Cross Wound Classification [18].
• Red Cross Emblem and the medical profession--the Indian scenario [19].

Gene context of Red Cross

• Serum testosterone, sex hormone-binding globulin, free testosterone index (FTI), prolactin, and pituitary gonadotropins were assayed and compared with age-matched Red Cross blood donor controls (N = 23 to 90 for the various assays) [20].
• METHODS: In the present study, prostate specific antigen (PSA) samples obtained from 2,272 males (aged 40-65 years) who donated blood at the local Red Cross Blood Bank were evaluated [21].
• WB records from American Red Cross blood centers were reviewed to determine the frequency of env-only and p24/env-only patterns, relative to all positive WBs, from 1988 through 1993 [22].
• The incidence of anti-C9 precipitating antibodies following transfusion was investigated in 63,625 patients treated at Kyushu University Hospital, and 475,886 blood donors at the Fukuoka Red Cross Blood Center were studied to determine the frequency of C9D in Japan. Transfusion reactions in recipients having anti-C9 were also monitored [23].
• The DeKalb White x Hampshire Red cross also did not exhibit cardiac defects [11].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Red Cross

• STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: During a 10-month period, donations from all allogeneic blood donors in the American Red Cross Southwest Region were tested for T. cruzi antibodies by enzyme immunoassay, and results were confirmed by radioimmunoprecipitation [24].
• The Southern Arizona Red Cross Blood program, in conjunction with participating hospitals and cardiac surgeons, evaluated the effect of a program to harvest autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) from patients immediately prior to undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery [25].
• The first study was a longitudinal study of field-recruited IDUs from 1990 to 1992 and the second was a study of all prison entrants in 1991-92 (both studies were carried out in Victoria); blood donors were from the Australian Red Cross Blood Bank Victoria in 1995 [26].
• We also studied pre- and post-infusion ATIII levels in patients who received 100 U/Kg of a more purified fIX concentrate (American Red Cross), which contains little or no activated clotting factors and has been shown to be non-thrombogenic in animal models [27].
• The demographic and health profile and anthropometry of 106 young children hospitalised with acute diarrhoea during winter at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, is reported [28].

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