Active clinical trials for "Anemia"

This is an randomized trial to evaluate the potential benefit of erythropoietin in the treatment of anemia in patients with lymphoma after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

This study evaluates Buxue Yimu Pills，Ferrous Sulfate and the addition of Buxue Yimu Pills to Ferrous Sulfate in the treatment of Iron-Deficiency Anemia in adults women. One third of participanta will receive Buxue Yimu Pills, one third of participanta will receive Buxue Yimu Pills, one third of participanta will receive Ferrous Sulfate，and the another third will receive Buxue Yimu Pills and Ferrous Sulfate in combination.

The objective of the study is to develop a simple, noninvasive test for evaluation of iron absorption as a tool to determine the cause of iron deficiency anemia. Healthy, premenopausal women with iron deficiency with or without anemia will be recruited for the study. Participants will, over the course of two months, ingest an iron solution three times; after each iron ingestion, participants will collect their stool and bring it to the study investigators for assessment of iron content.

Our hypothesis is that ex vivo activated immune cells would produce multiple known and unknown potent hematopoietic cytokines, working in concert, these cytokines help stem cell growth and differentiation. Additionally, these cells travel and home to bone marrow as well as spleen and liver involved in hematopoietic activities, where direct cell-cell contact may be beneficial.

The clinical evaluation of anemia is usually done by examination of the palpebral conjontivae coloration. This appreciation remains crude and largely observer dependent, as no reference scale was successfully proposed,. A Hb visual scale allowing the assessment of the degree of clinical anemia has been developed. Its use has been validated so far in small patient groups in the following settings: blood donation, cardiac surgery, oncology and consultation of general practitioners. The objective of the present investigation is to validate the use of a Hb visual scale for the clinical evaluation of anemia in patients with kidney disease patients

Severe aplastic anemia is a fatal disease and patients without HLA matched siblings need alternative treatment option. Cord blood transplantation (CBT) has become an alternative treatment means in various diseases, but it has not been proved to be good for severe aplastic anemia. Double units CBT is proposed to have better engraftment potential and and we reported successful double units UCBT after engraftment failure with single unit with promising result. To increase the engraftment potential, fludarabine, cyclophosphamide plus TBI conditioning regimen for double units cord blood transplantation was proposed for the patient with severe aplastic anemia without HLA-matched donor.

The concept of Patient Blood Management requires preoperative diagnostic of anemia. To avoid the harmful procedure of venous puncture for drawing a blood sample, noninvasive measurement of hemoglobin has been developed. However noninvasive measurement of hemoglobin has yet been not accurate enough to replace invasive hemoglobin measurement. This study investigates if a noninvasive measurement tool can serve as a screening tool to find out for which patients invasive measurement of hemoglobin is necessary.

Severe and very severe aplastic anemia are life threatening disorders for which allogeneic stem cell transplant is only curative treatment. However, matched sibling donor (MSD) is available in only 25-35% cases. Pakistan has a population of around 203 million but there is no donor registry available so there is no option available for matched unrelated donor (MUD) transplants . Haploidentical transplant represents only curative option for patients lacking MSD. Protocols involving post transplant cyclophosphamide require Total body irradiation (TBI) and utilize peripheral blood stem cell(PBSC) as graft source. TBI is not available in most of transplant centres across Pakistan due to lack of availability , cost and lack of expertise. The investigators have conceived a novel TBI free conditioning regimen to be used for haplo-identical Hemtopoeitic stem cell transplant in acquired aplastic anemia patients

Severe acquired aplastic anaemia (SAA) is a life-threatening disease characterized by pancytopenia and hypoplastic bone marrow. Immunosuppressive treatment with antithymocyte globulin (ATG)and cyclosporine remain the standard regimen with response rates of 70% or more and excellent overall survival. However ,there are no clinical trials to illustrate the response and complete remission rate with different doses of ATG.And there are no data reported on children with SAA so far.

The objective of this study is to measure the change in blood values after the administration of an amino acid based erythropoietin stimulating system.