Publications by authors named "Roberto Barbazza"
Background: During the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Italian hospitals faced the most daunting challenges of their recent history, and only essential therapeutic interventions were feasible. From March to April 2020, the Laboratory of Advanced Cellular Therapies (Vicenza, Italy) received requests to treat a patient with severe COVID-19 and a patient with acute graft-versus-host disease with umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (UC-MSCs). Access to clinics was restricted due to the risk of contagion.
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- Hemolysis, which is when blood cells break down, often leads to lab tests being rejected because it can mess up the results.
- A 10-year-old with asthma needed blood tests after receiving medication but the lab found problems with the blood sample due to clots and hemolysis.
- The conclusion is that doctors and lab staff need to work together better to make sure patients get the right care and test results.