Use of recombinant human erythropoietin to avoid blood transfusion in a Jehovah's Witness requiring hemispherectomy. Case report.
The use of perioperative human recombinant erythropoietin is described in a Jehovah's Witness patient. Despite significant anemia, the child's hematocrit was sufficiently increased by the use of erythropoietin so that a two-stage hemispherectomy could be performed without blood transfusion.
Schiff
S J
SJ
Department of Neurosurgery, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
Weinstein
S L
SL
D000293:Adolescent; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D002835:Christianity; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000097:blood / Q000601:surgery*; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006400:Hematocrit; D006801:Humans; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011994:Recombinant Proteins
D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D004921:Erythropoietin