| the functions of a university-based viral diagnostic laboratory: recent experiences at yale-new haven hospital. | | 1982 | 6295010 |
| cholestatic jaundice due to ackee fruit poisoning. | a 27-yr-old jamaican male presented with a 2-month history of jaundice, pruritus, intermittent diarrhea, and right upper quadrant abdominal pain. over the next month, his abdominal pain and diarrhea improved, but his jaundice and pruritus worsened. he was afebrile and profoundly jaundice, with a benign abdominal examination. medical workup included a normal abdominal ultrasound, iron studies, ceruloplasm, and serum electrophoresis. negative viral (epstein-barr virus, cytomegalovirus, mononucleos ... | 1994 | 8079944 |
| direct assessment of cytomegalovirus transfusion-transmitted risks after universal leukoreduction. | cytomegalovirus (cmv) transfusion-transmitted disease (ttd) remains a clinical concern. universal leukoreduction has become one of the main strategies for the prevention of cmv-ttd. through prospective clinical follow-up and testing of transfusion recipients (trs), the risk for cmv-ttd was studied. | 2010 | 19912585 |
| universal pre-storage leukoreduction--a defensible use of hospital resources: the yale-new haven hospital experience. | in conclusion, as of 2004, it appears that in the united states in some hospitals, the use of lr blood products will probably remain as slr rather than psulr, due primarily to economic pressures. while some blood centres are slowly converting to ulr, there remains a mix of negative and positive feelings among physicians that make adoption of a national psulr standard of care difficult. what is clear is that leukoreduction filters will cost more than the 170 um screen ("clot") filter. the use of ... | 2005 | 16050154 |
| race/ethnicity as a risk factor for hiv-1 infection among connecticut intravenous drug users. | this cross-sectional study of 341 entrants to drug abuse treatment in four connecticut cities in 1986-1987 evaluated whether demographic, behavioral, viral serologic, or economic differences explained the disproportionate risk of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (hiv-1) infection among black and hispanic intravenous drug users (ivdus), relative to non-hispanic white ivdus. blacks [odds ratio (or) = 9.0, 95% confidence interval (ci) = 5.1-15.9] and hispanics (or = 4.1, 95% ci = 1.9-8.8) were a ... | 1989 | 2795451 |