Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Blood Disorders

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for blood disorders.

Created July 2011

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Title:   Prevention of fungal infections in cancer patients with amphotericin B or fluconazole.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cancer patients treated with chemotherapy or who receive a bone marrow transplant have an increased risk of acquiring fungal infections. Such infections can be life-threatening. Antifungal drugs are therefore often given prophylactically to such patient...
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Prevention of fungal infections in patients with cancer with amphotericin B
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients with cancer who are treated with chemotherapy or receive a bone marrow transplant have an increased risk of acquiring fungal infections. Such infections can be life-threatening. Antifungal drugs are therefore often given prophylactically to suc...
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Prevention of fungal infections in patients with cancer with antifungal drugs
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy or a bone marrow transplant are at risk of fungal infections. These can be life-threatening, especially when spread throughout the body. Those with low white cell counts (neutropenia) are particularly at risk. Anti...
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Antenatal interventions for fetomaternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The optimal management of pregnant women with a previous child affected by fetomaternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia remains unclear. Differences between the platelets of an unborn baby and their mother, because of a fetal platelet alloantigen inherited ...
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Single-dose dipyrone for the treatment of acute postoperative pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Dipyrone is a popular medicine for pain relief in many countries and is used to treat postoperative pain, colic pain, cancer pain and migraine. Other countries (e.g. USA, UK, Japan) have banned its use because of an association with potentially life-thr...
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Single-agent antibiotic treatment for cancer patients with fever and low white blood cell counts
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cancer patients develop neutropenia, a decrease in the neutrophil subset of the white blood cells, as a result of chemotherapy. Neutropenia exposes patients to infections, mainly bacterial. Without antibiotic treatment these infections may be fatal, the...
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Deferasirox for managing iron overload in people with myelodysplastic syndrome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Repeated red blood cell transfusions can lead to relevant secondary iron overload in some people with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) particularly of lower risk groups over the course of their disease. Drugs to remove the excess iron (iron chelation ther...
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Anti-D administration after childbirth for preventing Rhesus alloimmunisation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Immunisation of Rhesus negative women with anti-D after the birth of a Rhesus positive infant reduces the chances of developing Rhesus antibodies. Mothers and babies may have incompatible blood characteristics (such as Rhesus positive babies and Rhesus ...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   TPO receptor agonists for treating chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an acquired autoimmune disorder characterized by low platelet counts. To date, the therapies that primarily aim to reduce platelet destruction, such as corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulins and...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Techniques of intrauterine fetal transfusion for women with red-cell isoimmunisation for improving health outcomes
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Red-cell alloimmunisation can occur when there are incompatibilities between a woman's blood type and that of her unborn baby (such as Rhesus or Kell). During pregnancy, the baby's blood can cross the placenta and enter the woman's circulation, which ma...
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Partial exchange transfusion to prevent neurodevelopmental disability in infants with polycythemia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Polycythemia is a condition in which there are too many red blood cells in the blood circulation. Polycythemia may occur with many different conditions. Some of the babies affected by polycythemia include those born after 42 weeks (post-term), small for...
Date:   Nov 2009
Title:   Thrombophilia testing for the prevention of recurrent venous thromboembolism
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Thrombophilia is the term used to describe an hereditary or acquired predisposition to thromboembolism (the formation of a venous clot), which manifests itself as either deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE). The presence of thrombophili...
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Transfusions of white blood cells called granulocytes for preventing infections in patients who lack functioning granulocytes
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Functioning white blood cells, in particular granulocytes are important for fighting life-threatening bacterial and fungal infections. For many years, some hospital physicians have been ordering granulocytes for patients who lack white cells as a result...
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   The role of prophylactic immunoglobulins in hematological malignancies
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients with hematological malignancies are prone to infections due to defects in their immune system. One of the main defects is a reduction in the level of immunoglobulins. For many years, the notion was that administration of pooled immunoglobulins ...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Treatment for POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein, and skin changes)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   POEMS syndrome is a rare disorder of the blood which can cause a polyneuropathy (nerve symptoms such as numbness, tingling, weakness, and pain) but can also involve many of the organs of the body, causing enlarged organs or organomegaly (usually liver, ...
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Oral antibiotics are an acceptable alternative to intravenous antibiotics for treating febrile neutropenia in cancer patients at low risk for complications
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Neutropenia (low white blood count) is a complication of cancer chemotherapy exposing patients to life-threatening infections. Current practice for neutropenic patients with fever is hospital admission and treatment with intravenous antibiotics. Febrile...
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Anti-D administration in pregnancy for preventing Rhesus alloimmunisation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Anti-D given during pregnancy at 28 and 34 weeks of pregnancy reduces incidence of antibody formation and probably also reduces immunisation of women. Women whose blood group is Rh-negative sometimes form Rh-antibodies when carrying a Rh-positive baby. ...
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Cancer patients with fever and suspected infections can be treated with a single 'new generation' beta-lactam antibiotic and Single therapy is as efficacious as dual-combination therapy and associated with fewer adverse events
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cancer chemotherapy or bone marrow transplantation disrupts the immune system, exposing patients to severe infection. The major sign of infection is fever, and the hallmark of damaged immune defences a decreased white blood cell count. Previously patien...
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Platelet transfusions are used in modern clinical practice both to prevent and treat bleeding in patients with low platelet counts due to bone marrow failure.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review was undertaken to determine the best use of platelet transfusion for the prevention of bleeding (prophylactic platelet transfusion) in patients who have haematological malignancies and are receiving intensive chemotherapy or stem cell transp...
Date:   Jul 2004
Title:   Colony Stimulating Factors administered for chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia reduce time patients spend in hospital
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Febrile neutropenia frequently occurs in patients undergoing chemotherapy. It can be life threatening. Evidence from 13 randomized controlled trials shows Colony Stimulating Factors (CSF) do not appear to affect the death-rate, but do shorten the amount...
Date:   Jul 2000

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