Red cell allo- and autoimmunisation in transfused sickle cell and cancer patients in Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.

Background: Currently, no data are available on the prevalence of red blood cell (RBC) antibody formation amongst Kenyan patients with multiple transfusion needs, such as patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) or haematological malignancies (HM) and solid (SM) malignancies.

Objectives: We determined the prevalence and specificities of RBC alloantibodies and autoantibodies in two patient groups with recurrent transfusion demands at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.

Method: Between February and August 2014, 300 samples from SCD, HM and SM patients were collected and screened for alloantibodies.

[Bisyllabic words for speech audiometry: a new italian material].

Bisyllabic words are the most frequently used italian speech material in evaluating intelligibility function. The italian words presently used are those proposed by Bocca and Pellegrini in 1950. The Lists of these words do, however, present some problems with regard to phonemic balance and word familiarity.

[Prevalence of arterial hypertension in the community. Experience of the province of Veneto].

In the context of a W.H.O.

[Screening of hypertension in a community. Data from the "Camposampiero Project" (author's transl)].

During the initial phase of the international "Community Control Programme of Hypertension" sponsored by W.H.O.