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Researchers from Government Medical College, Department of Medicine report recent findings in blood transfusion

Published in Blood Weekly, May 20th, 2010

Fresh data on blood transfusion are presented in the report 'Plasma exchange with immunosuppression in pulmonary alveolar haemorrhage due to leptospirosis.' According to recent research from Surat, India, "Pulmonary involvement due to leptospirosis carries high case fatality rate and is the commonest cause of death due to leptospirosis. Immune mechanisms play a key role in the pathogenesis of leptospiral pulmonary haemorrhage."

"As other immune pulmonary haemorrhages due to non leptospiral causes are treated with plasma exchange and cyclophosphamide we evaluated their efficacy in patient with leptospiral pulmonary haemorrhage. Of the 602 confirmed patients of...

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