Therapeutic management of blood transfusion reaction in a crossbred cow

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Chand ◽  
P. S. Dhaliwal ◽  
S. K. Uppal
Keyword(s):  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Tick Infestation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Transfusion Reaction ◽  
Pale Mucous Membrane ◽  
Blood Smear Examination ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Veterinary Hospital ◽  
Crossbred Cow

A crossbred cow aged 6 year was presented to Teaching Veterinary Hospital of the Institute with the history of fever, tick infestation, anemia and decreased milk yield since last 10 days. Clinical examination revealed fever, pale mucous membrane and nil rumen motility. Hematological examination findings were anemia, leucopenia, relative neutrophilia and lymphopenia and decreased platelets. Blood smear examination revealed Anaplasma Marginale infection. Animal was treated with blood transfusion, oxytetracyclin, oral hematinic and multivitamin. After half an hour of start of transfusion, cow showed transfusion reaction in the form of urticarial eruptions all over the body, edema of eyelids, lips and over the face, frothy discharge from mouth with muscle tremor and shivering. Transfusion reaction was successfully managed with Adrenalin, Dexona, Avil along with normal saline.

Vancomycin-Induced Red Man Syndrome

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 572-580
Author(s):  
Maurice Levy ◽  
Gideon Koren ◽  
Lee Dupuis ◽  
Stanley E. Read
Keyword(s):  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
The Body ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Severe Hypotension ◽  
The Face ◽  
Red Man Syndrome ◽  
History Of ◽  
Serum Vancomycin ◽  
Mild Temperature ◽  
Cold Extremities

A total of 11 cases of red man syndrome collected among 650 children who had received vancomycin in our hospital between 1986 and 1988 (estimated prevalence 1.6%) were retrospectively analyzed. These 11 children were compared with 11 age-matched children who received vancomycin in whom red man syndrome did not develop. Of the patients with red man syndrome, 73%, and of the patients with no reaction, 45.4% received vancomycin for penicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis-positive cultures, or because of history of penicillin allergy. No difference was observed in the dose per kilogram given to both groups (12.9 ± 3.5 mg/kg per dose in those with red man syndrome vs 12.3 ± 6.9 mg/kg per dose in control childrens. The duration (mean ± standard deviation) of vancomycin infusion was 45.9 ± 16.7 minutes (range 10 to 90 minutes) in patients with red man syndrome and 54.5 ± 7.6 minutes (range 45 to 65 minutes) in the control group (P = .07). In the 5 children with red man syndrome rechallenged with vancomycin, slower infusion rates prevented or reduced the syndrome, which emphasized the fact that the rate of administration is the important determinant of red man syndrome in susceptible cases. Clinically, the syndrome developed at the end of the infusion in most patients, but appeared as early as 15 minutes after initiation of the infusion. It was mostly manifested as a flushed, erythematous rash on the face, neck, and around the ears. Less frequently, the rash was distributed all over the body. Pruritus was usually localized to the upper trunk but was also generalized (2 of 11 children). Associated signs and symptoms were hypotension, watery puffy eyes, tachycardia, respiratory distress, dizziness, agitation, and mild temperature increase. A premature infant with the red man syndrome had skin rash associated with poor perfusion, cold extremities, increased need for oxygen, and severe hypotension. The rash disappeared within 20 minutes (range 5 minutes to 7 hours) after vancomycin infusion was stopped. There was no association between serum vancomycin concentrations and red man syndrome; in both groups of patients therapeutic as well as subtherapeutic concentrations were observed, suggesting that this is an idiosyncratic and not a concentration-dependent phenomenon.

Successful therapeutic management of pigeon (Columba livia domestica)malaria with Chloroquine

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Chand ◽  
Harkirat Singh ◽  
Ashwani Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Physical Examination ◽  
Feed Intake ◽  
Blood Smear ◽  
Columba Livia ◽  
Poor Growth ◽  
Blood Smear Examination ◽  
History Of ◽  
Veterinary Hospital ◽  
Treatment Mortality

Pigeons from two different flocks were presented to Teaching Veterinary Hospital of Institute, Ludhiana with the history of dullness, depression, decreased feed intake, twisting of neck, incordination, difficulty in maintaining balance and death. Physical examination of the affected birds revealed weakness, ruffled feather, lameness, dyspnea, lethargy and poor growth. Blood smear examination revealed presence of pigmented intraerythrocytic halter shaped gametocytes of Hemoproteus columbae. The birds were treated with Chloroquine and multivitamin. After 5 days of treatment mortality was stopped in the birds and remaining birds regain their appetite and became alert and active. During a follow up period of one month no recurrence of disease and any further mortality were observed in the pigeon flocks.

scholarly journals Editorial

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. i-iv
Author(s):  
Katherine Bullock
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Ibn Sina ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Independent Thought

As Mehmet Mahfuz Söylemez documents in his “The Jundishapur School:Its History, Structure, and Functions,” Southwest Asia has long been a sitefor a cross-fertilization of ideas that have led to productive societies.Although Jundishapur’s excellence as a medical center predates the comingof Islam, it nevertheless played a key role in transmitting knowledge toMuslim physicians as well as contributing to Baghdad’s development as anup-and-coming center of excellence. In an open and welcoming climate,the scholars and physicians of Jundishapur and Baghdad fostered a learningenvironment that allowed Muslim civilizations to flourish.Today’s Muslims often look back to such “golden ages” with wistfulness,admiration, and frustration. Given the constant defeats and subjugationfaced by Muslim countries since western colonization, this wistfulness is notsurprising. In order to bolster their identity to defend themselves against thiscontinuing subjugation, Muslims often offer this glorious past to anIslamophobic world: “We are not barbarians! See what Muslim civilizationwas capable of!” And in the face of Eurocentric curricula that largely denyany role to a non-European civilization in the history of ideas since Plato,such reminders are crucial.But as Dieter Weiss’ “Paths toward an Arab Knowledge Society” inadvertentlyhighlights, such wistfulness is underscored by an ignorance of justwhat it takes to produce a golden age. For a society to flourish, it must createthe conditions that enable its inhabitants to engage in knowledge creation:the freedom to think, debate, and discuss. While he focuses only onthe Arab world, one would have to be blind to reality not to realize that thesame deplorable situation can be found in most Muslim countries today.Imagine what kind of Muslim cultural and political society must haveexisted for Ibn Sina, who produced great medical and philosophical workswhile denying the resurrection of the body. Compare that with the assassinations,death threats, and the like facing contemporary writers who engagein independent thought about Islam and the modern world. Think of the roleof caliph Ma’mun’s bayt al-hikmah (House of Wisdom), where Christians,Muslims, and scholars who followed other religions worked side-by-side to ...

scholarly journals Metastatic Cutaneous Melanoma of the Gallbladder

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Dhruvan Patel ◽  
Shazia Sohrawardy ◽  
Yub Raj Sedhai ◽  
Soney Basnyat ◽  
Anisha Daxini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Abdominal Pain ◽  
Metastatic Melanoma ◽  
Cutaneous Melanoma ◽  
Wedge Resection ◽  
The Body ◽  
Aggressive Disease ◽  
Laparoscopic Excision ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

Metastatic melanoma is an aggressive disease that can spread to many organs of the body. In rare cases, it can spread to the gallbladder causing secondary lesions, yet presenting with little to no symptoms. Therefore, most cases of metastatic melanoma lesions to the gallbladder go undiagnosed. Here, we present the case of a 41-year-old male with a four-month history of melanoma of the face, with a postresection status, who presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Doppler ultrasound and computed tomography confirmed the presence of a mass on the gallbladder. Laparoscopic excision along with liver wedge resection was performed. Pathology staining revealed the presence of a malignant metastatic melanoma lesion of the gallbladder.

scholarly journals ANAPLASMOSIS IN KINTAMANI CROSSBREED DOG: A CASE REPORT

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-315
Author(s):  
Ninis Arsyi Tahlia ◽  
I Nyoman Suartha ◽  
I Gede Soma
Keyword(s):  
Hair Growth ◽  
Blood Smear ◽  
Tick Infestation ◽  
Supportive Therapy ◽  
Normocytic Anemia ◽  
Symptomatic Therapy ◽  
Animal Activity ◽  
Blood Smear Examination ◽  
Mucous Membranes ◽  
Veterinary Hospital

Anaplasmosis is a disease in dogs caused by gram-negative intracellular microorganisms belonging to the Anaplasmataceae family. A 1 year old Kintamani mix dog was examined at the Veterinary Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Udayana University with complaints; itching, tick infestation, weakness, decreased feeding and erythema throughout the dog's body. Clinical examination results show pale mucous membranes in the mouth, weak dogs, Riphicephalus tick infestation of the skin. Routine haematological examination revealed hyperchromic normocytic anemia and thrombocytopenia. Positive blood smear examination found Anaplasma spp. The therapy given is in the form of causative, symptomatic and supportive therapy. Causative therapy was given doxycycline dose 10 mg / kg BW given orally for 28 days, ivermectin dose 0.2-0.3 mg / kg BW, subcutaneously once a week for three weeks, symptomatic therapy with vetadryl dose 1-5 mg / kg BW, subcutaneosly once a week for three weeks, while supportive therapy was given by giving vitamin Livron b-plex once a day for 10 days. Treatment with doxycycline, ivermectin, vetadryl and livron b-plex gave good results in case dogs in terms of animal activity, hair growth, good appetite and free animals from ticks.

scholarly journals Transfusion reaction and hemovigilance: An imperative discussion in Brazilian hemotherapy services

10.3823/2526 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Paulo dos Santos ◽  
Angela Alzamora ◽  
Mariana Dutra Teles ◽  
Veruska Lucena ◽  
Tatiana Almeida Omura de Paula ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Transfusion Reaction ◽  
Blood Components ◽  
Important Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
Transfusion Reactions

Transfusion of blood components is considered safer, but it took years to reach this level. One of the most effective ways to make blood transfusion a safer practice is hemovigilance, which provides important data, including the history of feared transfusion reactions. In recent years in Brazil, there has been an improvement in the reporting of transfusion reactions, however due to the great diversity of hematology services, there are still transfusion reactions. The aims of this study were described the main types of transfusion reactions, as well as to evaluate the underreporting importance of transfusion occurrences of hemotherapy services in Brazil.

scholarly journals Re-Presenting the Future of Medicine’s Past: Towards a Politics of Survival

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Cooter
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
History Writing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

The ‘death’ of the social history of medicine was predicated on two insights from postmodern thinking: first, that ‘the social’ was an essentialist category strategically fashioned in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and second, that the disciplines of medicine and history-writing grew up together, the one (medicine) seeking to objectify the body, the other (history-writing) seeking to objectify the past. Not surprisingly, in the face of these revelations, historians of medicine retreated from the critical and ‘big-picture’ perspectives they entertained in the 1970s and 1980s. Their political flame went out, and doing the same old thing increasingly looked more like an apology for, than a critical inquiry into, medicine and its humanist project. Unable to face the present, let alone the future, they retreated from both, suffering the same paralysis of will as other historians stymied by the intellectual movement of postmodernism. Ironically, this occurred (occurs) at a moment when ‘medicine’ – writ large to include the biosciences and biotechnology – could easily be said to be the most relevant and compelling subject for understanding contemporary life and politics (global, local, and individual) and, as such, the place to justify the practice of history-writing as a whole. God knows, legitimacy has never been more urgent. But how can this be effected? Political action seems more likely than prayer. But let us begin by reviewing the nature of the problem that demands this response.

scholarly journals Diagnosis and Therapeutic Management of Theileriosis in Cattle Calves

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Dhuria D
Keyword(s):  
Tick Infestation ◽  
Jugular Vein ◽  
Leukocyte Count ◽  
Severe Anaemia ◽  
Total Leukocyte Count ◽  
Animal Science ◽  
Pale Mucous Membrane ◽  
Blood Smears ◽  
History Of ◽  
Thin Blood Smears

The present investigation was carried out among ten cross-bred Cattle calves of age between 1-5 months which were presented to Veterinary Clinical Complex of College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Bikaner with the history of anorexia, high fever, diarrhoea and tick infestation. Upon clinical examination pale mucous membrane, enlarged prescapular lymph nodes and increase in respiration rate and pulse rate were found. Blood samples were collected from jugular vein in vacutainers containing EDTA for haemogram. Microscopic examination of Giemsa stained thin blood smears revealed piroplasms in erythrocytes and lymph node aspirate smears revealed presence of schizonts (Koch’s blue bodies) in lymphocytes. Upon haematological examination it revealed that the decrease in haemoglobin, total erythrocyte count, packed cell volume and lymphocytes, however increase in total leukocyte count and neutrophils. After confirmation of Theileriosis in calves Buparvaquone was administered at the dose rate of 1ml/20kg body weight via intramuscular route. Eight calves were very well responded to the treatment but two calves were eventually died due to severe anaemia.

scholarly journals Identification of Risk Factors Characteristics of Transfusion Reaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eko Putri Rahajeng ◽  
Raehana Samad ◽  
Rachmawati Muhiddin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Disease Diagnosis ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Blood Component ◽  
Transfusion Reaction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Transfusion Reactions

Blood transfusion is an important part of health care. A blood transfusion can be carried out after careful consideration of its risks and benefits. One of the important considerations for blood transfusion is adverse transfusion reaction. Several risk factors for a transfusion reaction are age, gender, repeated transfusion, disease diagnosis, type of blood component, and blood incompatibility. This research is a descriptive study performed at Blood Bank Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital, Makassar, from January to December 2017. The subjects were all patients reported to have an acute transfusion, totaling 104 subjects. The descriptive method was carried out by the calculation of frequency distribution. From January to December 2017, 104 patients with transfusion reactions were obtained, predominantly were male (53.8%), with the lowest age range of ≥ 60 years (27.9%), packed red cell as the most found blood components (82.4%), a history of previous transfusion reactions (72.1%), and a diagnosis of malignancy (53.9%). The history of repeated transfusions is the most common risk factor compared to age, gender, blood component, and patient diagnosis.

scholarly journals Hypertrophic osteopathy associated with systemic granulomatous disease in a horse

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 897
Author(s):  
Liomara Andressa do Amaral Kwirant ◽  
Flavio Desessards De La Côrte ◽  
Karin Erica Brass ◽  
Cláudio Severo Lombardo Barros ◽  
Ricardo Barbosa de Lucena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ultrasound Examination ◽  
Appendicular Skeleton ◽  
Granulomatous Lesions ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Physical Examinations ◽  
Progressive Weight Loss ◽  
Inflammatory Drugs ◽  
Veterinary Hospital ◽  
Santa Maria

A 4-year-old Criollo stallion was presented at the equine clinic of veterinary hospital of the Federal University of Santa Maria, RS, with a 30-day history of progressive weight loss, anemia and swelling of the forelimbs and face. Physical examination revealed that the swelling was firm and had a bone-like consistency, also radiographs showed extensive periosteal proliferation on the forelimb long bones that suggested hypertrophic osteopathy (Marie´s disease). Physical examinations identified no respiratory findings. However, during ultrasound examination, superficial lung disease was identified. The animal was treated with antibiotics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for 12 days. Due to a complete lack of response to this treatment, the horse was euthanized. At necropsy several granulomatous lesions were identified in the thorax, abdomen and testicular tunics. Bony proliferation was evident on many bones of the appendicular skeleton and face. Based on these findings the diagnosis of hypertrophic osteopathy associated with sarcoidosis was established. It is important to perform a thorough clinical examination and include hypertrophic osteopathy in the differential diagnosis of diseases that are accompanied by swelling of the face and limbs as edema from various causes, fibrous osteodystrophy, for example. Key words: Pulmonary. Periosteal. Sarcoidosis. Pathology

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