Blood donation practices, processing and utilisation of blood components in government tertiary hospitals in Nigeria: a multicentre cooperative study.

Background: Timely access to safe blood and blood components is still a challenge in Nigeria. This study aimed to determine blood donation practices, processing and utilization of blood components across government tertiary hospitals (THs) in Nigeria.

Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study done in Nigeria in June-July 2020.

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Is Associated with Common Genetic Variants and Limited Rare Variants.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare, irreversible, and progressive disease of the lungs. Common genetic variants, in addition to nongenetic factors, have been consistently associated with IPF. Rare variants identified by candidate gene, family-based, and exome studies have also been reported to associate with IPF.

Long COVID syndrome and the lung: how long will it last?

The prevalence and duration of the long-term respiratory complications of COVID-19 infection remains to be elucidated. This short commentary reports on recently published studies in patients post-acute COVID-19 infection in terms of symptom prevalence, physiological and radiological sequela and where only symptoms are present despite investigation. Pulmonary function testing, 6-min walk tests, computed tomography chest and more advanced imaging modalities have been incorporated to reveal the underlying pathophysiology that cause such disabling symptoms in patient with post-acute COVID-9 syndrome (PACS).

Acute leukemia in sickle cell disease patients in a tertiary health facility in Nigeria: a case series.

Background And Objectives: Sickle cell disease(SCD) is a disorder of red cells resulting from the co-inheritance of haemoglobin S (HbS) with another abnormal haemoglobin. The diagnosis of acute leukaemia is uncommon in our patients with sickle cell disease more so the patients have high morbidity and mortality due to the sickling process. Acute leukemia is a malignant clonal disorder of haemopoietic precursor cells resulting in accumulation of immature blood cells in the bone marrow and blood.

Haematology Consultations in a Tertiary Health Care Centre in Nigeria.

Background And Objectives: The ease with which investigations are done in this technological age increases the possibility of finding abnormal haematological values, which inevitably leads to haematologic consultations. The Department of Haematology at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan provides a busy consultative service for in-patients and out-patients suspected of having a haematological disorder. This study reviewed the consultations received from different clinical departments to Consultant Haematologists at our tertiary hospital.