Active clinical trials for "Anemia"

To investigate the efficacy of posaconazole as prophylaxis antifungal agent in aplastic anemia / hypoplastic myelodysplastic syndrome (AA/hMDS) patients undergoing antithymocyte globulin (ATG) treatment

This study will use cluster randomised controlled trial design. It will be conducted at four antenatal clinics in Petaling district, Selangor, Malaysia. Two antenatal clinics will be randomised as intervention group. Other two antenatal clinics will be the control group. The investigators will recruit 60 participants from intervention and 60 participants from control group to evaluate effectiveness of 'MyPinkMom' educational intervention. Participants from intervention group will receive usual antenatal care and 'MyPinkMom' educational intervention through WhatsApp application, while those from control group receive usual antenatal care only. The outcome measurements are mean haemoglobin level, knowledge score, Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) construct and dietary iron intake between intervention and control group.

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia is characterized by shortened red blood cell survival and a positive Coombs test. The responsible autoantibodies may be either warm reactive or cold reactive. The rate of hemolysis and the severity of the anemia may vary from mild to severe and life-threatening. Diagnosis is made in the laboratory by the findings of anemia, reticulocytosis, a positive Coombs test, and specific serologic tests. The prognosis is generally good but renal failure and death sometimes occur, especially in cases mediated by drugs.

Iron deficiency anemia affects over half of girls and young women with heavy periods and is the most common cause of anemia worldwide. Most girls with heavy periods who also have iron deficiency anemia are prescribed iron to take by mouth every day by their doctor. There are some studies showing that taking iron every other day may actually help the iron be absorbed into the bloodstream better. This study is trying to compare how taking iron every other day compares to taking iron daily for treatment of anemia. The goal of this clinical research study is to learn which of the two methods of care will be the best way for girls and young women with iron deficiency anemia to take iron supplementation.

Background: Severe aplastic anemia (SAA) is a form of bone marrow failure. It usually results from a cytotoxic T cell attack on the marrow stem cell. Two treatments can be used for most people with SAA. One is allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). The other is immunosuppressive treatment (IST). For people who are treated with IST, relapse can occur. If this happens, they can have HSCT or be re-treated with IST. The two most common IST regimes used for relapsed SAA are rabbit ATG (rATG) and alemtuzumab. Both rATG and alemtuzumab have similar response rates and survival rates. There is not much long-term data on people who need repeat IST treatment due to relapse. Researchers want to look at data from past studies to learn more. Objective: To compare the data of relapsed SAA patients between those who received alemtuzumab versus rATG for repeat IST treatment. Eligibility: Adults and children with SAA who were enrolled on NHLBI protocol 12-H-0150, 06-H-0034, 05-H-0242, 03-H-0249, 03-H-0193, 00-H-0032, or 90-H-0146 Design: This study uses data from past studies. The participants in those studies have allowed their data to be used in future research. Researchers will review participants medical records. They will collect clinical data, such as notes, test results, and imaging scans. They will also collect the research data gathered as part of the original study. Researchers will enter the data into an in-house database. It is password protected. All data will be kept in secure network drives or in secure sites. Other studies may be added in the future....

This observational study aims to compare long-acting darbepoetin alpha versus short-acting epoetin alpha erythropoietin-stimulating agents in Egyptian hemodialysis patients. The main questions aim to answer are: What are the effectiveness and safety of long- acting versus short-acting erythropoietin-stimulating agents in Egyptian hemodialysis patients? What is the cost-effectiveness of long- acting versus short-acting erythropoietin-stimulating agents in Egyptian hemodialysis patients? Participants will be divided into 2 groups; epoetin alfa (short-acting ESA), Eprex group, and darbepoetin alfa (long-acting ESA), Aranesp group for six month study period.

Anemia is the most common extraintestinal manifestation of IBD, occurring in 6 to 74 percent of patients. Most cases of anemia in IBD are due to iron deficiency (IDA) and to anemia of inflammation (AI). Although the ECCO diagnostic criteria for IDA are simple, and iron supplementation represents a cheap and usually effective treatment, many IBD patients with IDA are not properly treated. The inconsistent adherence, by many physicians, to treatment guidelines for IDA in IBD is often motivated by the belief that mild to moderate degrees of anemia may not have a significant impact on the patient's quality of life or do not represent the main clinical problem of the patient, that oral iron supplementation may adversely affect disease activity, and that parenteral iron administration may cause severe side effects. On this basis, we aim to perform a longitudinal, prospective, observational study whose main objective is the determination of the prevalence of anemia in IBD patients in Italy. Secondary objectives of the study are a) to investigate the pathogenesis of anemia in IBD, with a particular focus on the differential diagnosis between IDA and AI, and how disease activity, extension or behavior influence the relative frequency of IDA and AI; b) to verify the adherence to ECCO guidelines for the treatment of IDA in IBD (the proportion of patients with IDA that receive adequate iron supplementation); c) to administer dedicated questionnaires to the patients in order to measure the influence of anemia on fatigue and quality of life among IBD patients.

Childhood anemia is a global public health problem that is associated with life-threatening consequences such as growth retardation, impaired motor and cognitive development, and increased morbidity and mortality. Anemia can be caused by a variety of factors such as nutritional deficiencies (i.e., iron, folic acid, vitamin B12, and vitamin A), infections (i.e., helminth), and blood disorders (i.e., hemoglobinopathies). The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that approximately 50% of anemia cases can be attributed to iron deficiency. This is an estimated global average that varies widely depending upon the location in question. The World Bank estimates for 2011 claim that approximately 55.60% of all Bangladeshi children under five years of age are suffering from anemia. The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) inequality and anemia among the children has never been conclusively and it is unclear if the children of the age group of 6-59 months have uniformly high levels of anemia during all the stages of development, e.g., during the infant, toddler, and preschool stages. In addition, there is a dearth of evidence from Bangladesh, where the meaning of sociodemographic characteristics may be different from that in other countries. Therefore, this study attempts to fill the above-mentioned lacuna by investigating and evaluating the association of SES inequality, among other explanatory variables, on the development of childhood anemia during different stages of child development and to answer the questions: (a) Is SES a factor impeding childhood anemia along with other explanatory variables? (b) In which stage of child development, the chance of disparaging with childhood anemia is highest? (c) Is there evidence of between child development stages differences in the strength and form of association disparities between having childhood anemia and SES? (c) What are the predictive margins for SES-associated anemia in the case of infants, toddlers, and preschool children? The results of this analysis will be reported for elucidating the potential effects of SES and the stages of child development that are usually neglected in the conventional scientific literature. Moreover, as anemia is one of the current key health issues in Bangladesh, it is also expected that the findings of this study would contribute significantly toward shaping the health policy strategy of the country.

Background and rationale: Children hospitalised with severe anaemia in Africa are at high risk of readmission or death within 6 months after discharge. No strategy specifically addresses this post-discharge period. In Malawi, 3 months of post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) with monthly 3-day treatment courses of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) in children with severe malarial anaemia prevented 31% of deaths and readmissions. The effect was in addition to the effect of insecticide-treated bednets. There is now need to design and evaluate effective delivery mechanism for PMC within the health system.

The investigators hypothesize that the post-hospitalized patient status is characterized by subacute and reversible metabolic and hematological changes that, if addressed and treated in a timely manner, would result in a reduced risk for repeat hospitalization. Consequently, a structured quality improvement program, focused on increasing adherence to company wide anemia management policies (ie hemoglobin monitoring within the first 3-5 days post-hospitalization, followed by an appropriate EPO dose modification within the 7 days post-hospitalization), will significantly decrease the risk of hospital re-admission in the 30 days after discharge.