ArticleKorean journal of anesthesiology2017
Liver transplantation in Jehovah's Witnesses: two cases report.
Article in Korean journal of anesthesiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- The Clinical and Medico-Legal Aspects in the Challenge of Transfusion-Free Organ Transplants: A Scoping Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Effect of high-dose intravenous iron injection on hepatic function in a rat model of cirrhosis.The Journal of international medical research · 2024Article
- Liver transplantation in Jehovah's witnesses: 13 consecutive cases at a single institution.BMC anesthesiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Liver transplantation is especially challenging in patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses because their religious beliefs prohibit the receipt of blood products. We present two cases of living donor liver transplantation performed in adult Jehovah's Witnesses in South Korea without the use of blood products. In the first case, preoperative erythropoiesisstimulation therapy increased hemoglobin levels from 8.1 to 13.1 g/dl after 9 weeks. In the second case, hemoglobin levels increased from 7.4 to 10.8 g/dl after 6 months of erythropoiesis-stimulation therapy. With the combination of acute normovolemic hemodilution, intraoperative cell salvage, and use of transfusion alternatives, liver transplantation was successfully performed without transfusion of blood products.
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