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ArticleJournal of the South African Veterinary Association2018

Xenotransfusion with packed bovine red blood cells to a wildebeest calf (Connochaetes taurinus).

Roxanne K Buck, George F Stegmann, Luke A Poore, Tahiyya Shaik, Travis Gray, Gareth E Zeiler

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Article in Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 55% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Roxanne K BuckDepartment of Companion Animal Clinical Studies, University of Pretoria. roxanne.buck@up.ac.za.
George F Stegmann
Luke A Poore
Tahiyya Shaik
Travis Gray
Gareth E Zeiler
University of Pretoria · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 4-month-old female blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) was presented for bilateral pelvic limb fracture repair. Clinical examination under anaesthesia revealed a water-hammer pulse and a haematocrit of 0.13. A xenotransfusion was performed using bovine (Bos taurus) erythrocytes because of inability to acquire a wildebeest donor. Clinical parameters improved following transfusion and the post-operative haematocrit value was 0.31. The wildebeest remained physiologically stable with a gradually declining haematocrit for the next three days. On the third post-operative day, the wildebeest refractured its femur and was humanely euthanised because of the poor prognosis for further fracture repair. Xenotransfusion using blood from domestic ruminants represents a life-saving short-term emergency treatment of anaemic hypoxia in wild ungulates. Domestic goats could be used as blood donors for rare ungulates where allodonors are not available.

Indexed as

AntelopesAnemiaAnimalsAnimals, WildCattleErythrocytesErythrocyte TransfusionEuthanasia, AnimalFemaleFractures, BoneHypoxiaPelvic BonesSouth AfricaTransplantation, Heterologousanaemiablood transfusionConnochaetes taurinuswildebeestxenotransfusion

Identifiers

PMID30326712
PMCPMC6244219
OpenAlexW2895994346

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