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	venesection - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		venesection : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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	Venesection
		Venesection is used by the thought that if you could "reduce" the circulation of the patient with wounding or sepsis.
		So venesection was often done, going by the rationale that in order to control sepsis, you must bled the patient if he is to survive.
		The dangers of venesection were infection, damage to tendons and nerves, and the loss of excess quantities of blood and resultant anaemia.
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	Venesection
		Venesection was an interesting, and often lethal therapy.
		Venesection is used by the thought that if you could "reduce" the circulation of the patient with wounding or sepsis.
		The dangers of venesection were infection, damage to tendons and nerves, and the loss of excess quantities of blood and resultant anaemia.
	home1.gte.net /resp9aqv/thenapoleonicmedicalencyclopedia/id28.html (242 words)

	Guidelines for the diagnosis, investigation and management of polycythaemia / erythrocytosis
		In a retrospective study, patients with PV who were treated with venesection and chemotherapy, mainly busulphan, the incidence of arterial and venous thromboembolic events increased as the Hct increased.
		Venesection of male patients with apparent erythrocytosis due to a low plasma volume resulted in a fall of mean Hct from 0.5 to 0.43, with a rise in plasma volume without a reduction in overall blood volume (Humphrey et al, 1980).
		Benefit of limited venesection in patients with HPD was demonstrated by Weiss (Weisse et al, 1975) who showed that reducing the Hct to 0.50-0.52 led to an improvement in exercise tolerance, but a further staged reduction to Hct of 0.45 did not give additional benefit.
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	Blood-Letting - LoveToKnow 1911
		This may be effected by venesection, or the application of leeches, or more rarely by cupping (q.v.).
		Venesection, in which the blood is usually withdrawn from the median-basilic vein of the arm, has the disadvantage that it can only be performed by the medical man, and that the patient's friends are generally very much opposed to the idea.
		In the early stages of cerebral haemorrhage (before coma has supervened), when the heart is working vigorously and the tension of the pulse is high, a timely venesection may lead to arrest of the haemorrhage by lowering the blood pressure and so giving the blood in the ruptured vessel an opportunity to coagulate.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Blood-Letting (498 words)

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		Known as venesection therapy or phlebotomy, the procedure is the same as for blood donors.
		Venesection will usually be performed once a week, depending on the degree of iron overload.
		Excess iron will continue to be absorbed so the individual will need occasional venesections (maintenance therapy), on average every 3 to 4 months, for the rest of his or her life.
	www.ghsoc.org /pages/treatment.html (346 words)

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		Early diagnosis and treatment with venesection permits the avoidance of all the complications of haemochromatosis.
		At first venesection should be performed weekly, and each time the patient attends a full blood count should be done, as well as checking the liver function.
		Venesection stops when haemoglobin reaches 10 g per dl, and follow up is by checking bloods and venesection every three months.
	www.gpnotebook.co.uk /xda.cfm?ID=-1362100205 (90 words)

	Welcome to the Heart Views Website
		Venesection was the preferred way for execution of kings because the king's blood must not be spilled on the ground.
		Some have suggested that venesection might have suppressed the clinical manifestations of certain diseases, such as malaria, by lowering the availability of iron in the blood; the availability of iron may determine the ability of certain pathogens to grow and multiply.
		There is no evidence that venesection alone (without myelosuppressive treatment) reduces the risk of thrombosis in polycythemia rubra vera; on the contrary, patients who undergo frequent venesection have a higher incidence of vascular occlusion.
	www.hmc.org.qa /heartviews/VOL5NO2/special_section.htm (6523 words)

	The Liver Centre
		Once the excess iron has been removed, venesections are done about four times a year to prevent iron building up again.
		Venesection treatments need to continue for the rest of the person’s life.
		It is not possible to treat Haemochromatosis with a low iron diet, since iron is present in most foods and it is the iron already in the body which will cause the damage.
	www.thelivercentre.com.au /development/haemochromatosis/Default.htm (683 words)

	Venesection - Red Gold . Blood Basics . Early Practices . A Brief History of (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Venesection prolongs the life and may assist in reversal and prevention of Provided regular venesection (blood letting) is done, the excess iron in the
		In 15 patients removal of excess body iron by venesection therapy the extent of iron loading and it is improved by venesection therapy.
		Venesection is performed as often as necessary to keep the red blood count down.
	www.pagesfindout.com /psfo/venesection.html (431 words)

	British Society of Gastroenterology
		Venesection has established itself as the standard treatment for this condition.
		The aim is to gradually reduce excess hepatic iron by venesection at 1-2 week intervals.
		In one series, an average of 5.4 venesections was required to induce a remission.
	www.bsg.org.uk /clinical_prac/jun_06/jun06_11.htm (155 words)

	Management of polycythaemia in adults with cyanotic congenital heart disease -- THORNE 79 (4): 315 -- Heart
		If repeated venesections are performed to treat a high haematocrit rather than the patient's symptoms, iron deficiency results.
		It should be possible to avoid iatrogenic complications if basic guidelines for venesection are followed (table 2).
		In summary, the objects of venesection in adults with cyanotic congenital heart disease should be to relieve the symptoms
	heart.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/79/4/315 (1334 words)

	Red Gold . Blood Basics . Early Practices . A Brief History of Bloodletting \| PBS
		Venesection was the most common method of general bloodletting.
		Rapid bleeding by venesection with the patient standing was advised.
		It was surmised that the early onset of faintness and softness of pulse was beneficial.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/redgold/basics/bloodlettinghistory.html (1550 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Aphorisms by Hippocrates
		Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking pure wine, or the bath, or a fomentation, or venesection, or purging.
		Venesection cures dysuria; open the internal veins of the arm.
		Persons who are benefited by venesection or purging, should be bled or purged in spring.
	classics.mit.edu /Hippocrates/aphorisms.6.vi.html (1078 words)

	Who gets Hemochromatosis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abbott’s first venesection of 500 mls (which is equivalent to 250 mcg of iron) she is totally exhausted and has difficulty standing for some three days.
		This lady is also known to have osteoporosis (the rate of which is increased in HH) so it is important that she not fall as she could easily break an arm or worse a hip.
		What needs to be done is to decrease the standard venesection unit down to 250 mls and probably do this every few weeks after she has adequately recovered.
	www.articleshelf.com /Article/Who-gets-Hemochromatosis/13107 (1303 words)

	Red Gold . Blood Basics . Early Practices . A Brief History of Bloodletting \| PBS
		Bloodletting by venesection was the method most commonly used; instruments used included lancets and fleams.
		Venesection was used to treat horses as well as man. In 1825 White
		Arteriotomy was said to be indicated when there was a relative emptiness of the veins and an overfullness of the larger arteries.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/redgold/basics/bloodlettinghistory2.html (1532 words)

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		Venesection is a procedure similar to blood donation, where around 500mls of blood is removed.
		A person with haemochromatosis is treated with venesection until iron in the blood is reduced to normal levels.
		Once iron levels are normal, venesection needs to be performed two to four times every year for life.
	www.haemochromatosis.org.au (935 words)

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		The patient was HLA identical to her brother who had had haemochromatosis diagnosed by liver biopsy to establish the presence or absence of cirrhosis, the most important prognostic factor in haemochromatosis.(1)
		To achieve this, venesection should be continued until serum ferritin levels fall below 100 ng/ml and anemia develops.
		Venesection is required t deplete and maintain iron stores at the lower limit of normal.
	members.tripod.com /~hemochromatose/onderwerpen/54 (1297 words)

	Chapter 5: Medical Care and Public Health 1800-1850
		Blood was withdrawn from the general circulation by venesection (phlebotomy), and from local tissues by leeches.
		In the mid 1800's prompt and copious blood-letting by venesection was the first and most important treatment in puerperal fever, and was sanctioned by virtually all European and American authors on midwifery.
		Immediately following the first venesection, the second or medicinal phase of treatment of puerperal fever was begun This phase consisted of giving drugs that presumably led to the further "depletion" of the congested circulatory system.
	elane.stanford.edu /wilson/Text/5d.html (2368 words)

	Bloodletting
		As in the old days, many lives were lost by too generous a system of venesection, I venture to think, nowadays, not a few lives have been lost by the modern practitioner being afraid to use that form of treatment.
		With great difficulty I got permission to try venesection, and, had she died, no doubt I should have been held liable for her death; but, happily, the effect of removal of 16 oz.
		There is yet one other class of case where venesection is of the utmost value, and that is where convulsions persist, and the patient is practically in the status epilepticus.
	www.nzma.org.nz /journal/118-1227/1772 (560 words)

	Irish Haemochromatosis Association - Ireland Haemochromatosis information - Iron Overload - Iron Disorder
		This is by giving a blood donation and is called venesection or phlebotomy therapy.
		Treatment for haemochromatosis is on going for life and may require blood to be removed once or twice yearly depending on how quickly the iron is reaccumulating.
		Venesection treatment will allow iron tissue to be mobilized and iron stores will return to normal.
	www.haemochromatosis-ir.com /Q4.html (341 words)

	Venesection
		The necessity of watching and treating for blood-tension is therefore obvious, and exigencies dictate remedies either mechanical or medicinal.
		I was once pupil to a father and son, the former a moderate believer in venesection, while the son, with the rising school, discarded it.
		I may have been wrong, but as a looker-on I certainly had a suspicion that the father would sometimes cure with one visit and a venesection what might have required a week or two’s attendance from his painstaking son.
	www.nzma.org.nz /journal/116-1175/464 (329 words)

	PHLEBOTOMIES
		Venesection should be continued until all excess iron stores are removed as judged by failure of a rise in haemoglobin concentration on cessation of phlebotomy.
		Effects of testosterone and venesection on spinal and peripheral bone mineral in six hypogonadal men with hemochromatosis.
		Venesection therapy is safe and well tolerated in all age groups.
	munstermom.tripod.com /phlebs.htm (2298 words)

	UCLA Biomedical Library History & Special Collections: Bloodletting
		Generally speaking, however, as in regard to the other modes of local or topical bleeding, the blood drawn by leeches is discharged too slowly to have much effect on the general system, in the way of counter-impression.
		There is one objection, however, to the use of leeches in children, which deserves attention; namely, the terror they sometimes occasion, with a continuance of angry feelings for an hour or two, while the operation lasts.
		In such cases, therefore, scarifiction with cupping is often preferable to leeches; and, still more, venesection, if it be practicable, as it often is, either in the arm or neck.
	www.library.ucla.edu /libraries/biomed/his/blood/clutterbuck.html (1016 words)

	Genomics\|HuGENet\|Reviews\|HFE and Hereditary Hemochromatosis\|PubMed ID: 11479183
		Periodic phlebotomy or venesection to remove iron is a safe, inexpensive, and effective treatment for HHC.
		Venesection is usually initiated when serum ferritin (SF) concentrations indicate excess accumulation of iron stores.
		For example, the College of American Pathologists recommends initiation of venesection when SF reaches 300µg/L in men and 200µg/L in women (41); however, the appropriate SF cutoff for women may vary with their reproductive status (49).
	www.cdc.gov /genomics/hugenet/reviews/HFE.htm (5426 words)

	HAEMOCHROMATOSIS : Contact a Family - for families with disabled children: information on rare syndromes and disorders
		Early diagnosis and treatment by venesection is important to reduce disease progression.
		Venesection therapy is the taking of approximately one pint of blood, usually every week, until iron levels return to normal.
		Subsequently venesection continues at a less frequent rate (three to six monthly) for life to prevent iron accumulation.
	www.cafamily.org.uk /Direct/h15.html (851 words)

	Hippocrates: On regimen in acute diseases
		Venesection, however, does not alleviate the pain unless when it extends to the clavicle.
		The fl hellebore acts more pleasantly and effectually than the peplium, while, on the other hand, the peplium expels wind much more effectually than the fl hellebore, and both these stop the pain, and many other of the laxatives also stop it, but these two are the most efficacious that I am acquainted with.
		In a bilious fever, jaundice coming on with rigor before the seventh day carries off the fever, but if it occur without the fever, and not at the proper time, it is a fatal symptom.
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	PUB4 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Venesection - Blood is taken as if for a blood donation.
		Side effects are rare when used at this dose, but for most people venesection is preferred.
		Occasionally at the start of treatment both venesection and Chloroquine are used together.
	www.dundee.ac.uk /dermatology/PHOTO/CLINICAL/pct.htm (849 words)

	Health & Longevity\|DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART Part 4
		That marvelous organ which, moment by moment and year by year, keeps consistently sending the blood on its path through the arteriovenous system is naturally one whose structure and function need to be carefully studied if one is to guard it when threatened by disease.
		If venesection is done before actual convulsions have occurred, the blood pressure falls temporarily but rapidly rises again.
		It should be remembered that venesection or profuse bleeding during induced parturition is more valuable than sweating in all eclamptic cases and in all nephritic convulsions.
	www.truthbeknown.com /disturbances_of_the_heart_04.html (4079 words)

	Apria - resources - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Venesection improves bilirubin in a Dubin-Johnson syndrome and hepatitis C case.
		According to a study from Japan, "direct-type hyperbilirubinemia in Dubin-Johnson syndrome is due to the genetic dysfunction of multidrug resistance protein 2.
		Iron-reduction therapy by venesection, an alternative to interferon, was performed in a 55-year-old male patient with Dubin-Johnson syndrome complicated by hepatitis C virus-positive chronic liver disease and hepatic iron overload."
	www.apria.com /resources/1,2725,494-240708,00.html (366 words)

	Hemachromatosis
		Venesection prolongs the life and may assist in reversal and prevention of tissue damage.
		The amount of iron overload that you have will regulate how often you will have a venesection, but treatment is usually weekly for at least 18 months, with life-long follow-up.
		Provided regular venesection (blood letting) is done, the excess iron in the blood can be removed efficiently.
	www.liverdoctor.com /Section4/hemachromatosis.asp (2447 words)

	Irish Medical News
		Subsequently, patients may need venesection four or five times a year to correct their iron levels, said Dr Murphy.
		Currently there is no charge for venesection in a public hospital if the patient is a medical card-holder.
		The cost of venesection in hospitals for people who do not have a medical card ranges from E60 up to a maximum of E600 per annum.
	www.irishmedicalnews.ie /articles.asp?Category=news&ArticleID=16618 (644 words)

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