Publications by authors named "T VandenBroeke"
Article Synopsis
- Approximately 400 million people worldwide experience hearing loss, which is linked to cognitive decline, often influenced by factors like vestibular dysfunction, anxiety, and depression.
- A study involving 42 older adults with moderate-to-severe hearing loss and 42 matched normal-hearing controls assessed cognitive functioning using various tests, revealing significant cognitive deficits in those with hearing loss.
- The findings showed that participants with hearing loss scored lower on overall cognitive tests, particularly in visuospatial skills and attention, suggesting that hearing loss adversely impacts cognitive abilities in older adults, regardless of vestibular function.
Objectives: Hearing loss is a worldwide health problem that currently affects around 20% of the world's population. Untreated hearing loss can have a significant impact on daily life, it can cause social isolation, loneliness, frustration, and higher anxiety and depression rates. Furthermore, older adults with hearing impairment have a higher risk for accelerated cognitive decline compared with normal-hearing individuals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Increasing the number of collections of whole blood-derived platelets (WBDP) and lengthening the allowable storage time may alleviate platelet (PLT) shortages. There is a need for new PLT pooling sets that can provide acceptable quality on Day 7 of storage.
Study Design And Methods: This pool-and-split study compared WBDP prepared using the platelet-rich plasma method with the novel IMUGARD WB PLT pooling set and a control pooling set.
Background: The platelets (PLTs) in PLT concentrates are counted with hematology analyzers, but varying results among different hematology analyzers are observed, making comparisons very difficult. Due to the absence of red blood cells in PLT concentrates, the International Council for Standardization in Hematology (ICSH) reference method was modified to be used for PLT concentrates and validated in an international comparative study.
Study Design And Methods: Five PLT samples were shipped to eight participating centers of the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative and counted on the same day.
Background: Transported platelets (PLTs) are not under continuous agitation. The aim of this study was to determine whether PLTs shipped between 24 and 48 hours would be able to maintain a pH(22 degrees C) value of 6.5 at the end of 7 days of storage.
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