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UpToDate [online serial]. Kim and Oh (2016) stated that therapeutic phlebotomy is the preferred treatment for blood disorders in which the removal of RBCs or serum iron is the most efficient method for managing the symptoms and complications. AABB is now the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies. . Rombos and colleagues (2002)noted that sickle cell disease patients who acquire iron deficiency may experience a degree of amelioration from painful crises in terms of frequency, severity, and duration. Thalassemia intermedia patients can be candidates of liver donors to decrease pre-transplant wait-list mortality. The presently available treatment options in PV were discussed and recommendations for the clinical management were given. Barton JC, McDonnell SM, Adams PC, et al. Finazzi G, Barbui T. Evidence and expertise in the management of polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia. The mean Hb level at all clinic visits was 173 g/L (range of 134 to 205 g/L; n = 108); Hb concentrations of 180 g/L or more (calculated HCT of greater than or equal to 54%) were measured at 25 % of appointments. These data also suggested that repeat blood donation was insufficient to maintain HCT of below 54 %. Accessed November 12, 2002. Serum iron and ferritin concentrations are frequently elevated in patients with chronic viral hepatitis. 2021. Approach to the patient with suspected iron overload. Of the 27 repeat donors, 12 (44 %) had persistently elevated Hb levels (greater than or equal to 180 g/L) at subsequent donations. Indications for splenectomy include symptomatic portal hypertension, drug-refractory painful splenomegaly, and frequentred blood cellstransfusions. 1988;109(5):406-413. The Association works collaboratively Lengfelder E. Diagnosis and therapy of polycythemia vera in the era of JAK2. Therapeutic phlebotomy: The removal of a specific amount (volume) of blood from a patient for treatment of a specific condition or disease. 2019;114(8):1202-1218. Valenti and colleagues (2012) stated that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), defined by excessive liver fat deposition related to the metabolic syndrome, is a leading cause of progressive liver disease, for which accurate non-invasive staging systems and effective treatments are still lacking. This observation promptedthese researchersto identify the potential utility of iron load reduction in the management of this disease. Furthermore, UpToDate reviews on Preventive treatment of migraine in adults (Bajwa and Smith, 2015) and Chronic migraine (Garza and Schwedt, 2015) do not mention phlebotomy as a therapeutic option. Accessed November 12, 2002. A time for consensus? A study about how to achieve the most effective blood-letting therapy may also need to be conducted in the future. AABB is dedicated to its mission of improving lives by making transfusion medicine and biotherapies safe, available and effective worldwide. Therapeutic phlebotomy for testosterone-induced polycythemia. The authors concluded that although some positive findings were identified, no definite conclusions regarding the safety and efficacy of BLT as complementary and alternative approach for the treatment of hypertension could be drew due to the generally poor methodological design, significant heterogeneity, and insufficient clinical data. Recurrent thrombosis in patients with polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia: Incidence, risk factors, and effect of treatments. The 10-year risk of leukemic/fibrotic transformation is less than 1 %/1 % in ET and less than 3 %/10 % in PV. Available at: http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic449.htm. The combination of hydroxyurea and phlebotomy is not as effective as "standard" transfusion and chelation in preventing secondary stroke and iron over-load. 2008;93(3):372-380. During NID, attacks were also more often of milder severity. The comprehensive outcomes, which combine the clinical symptoms, signs, and laboratory examinations as one outcome, were not internationally recognized and could not reflect the characteristics of interventions. A patient, 6-year old girl, with a diagnosis of cryptogenic liver cirrhosis underwent deceased donor liver transplantation from a thalassemic donor. Quantitative phlebotomy was employed to remove iron in 12 hyperuricemic patients with GA and maintained their body iron at near-iron deficiency (NID) level (i.e., the lowest body iron store compatible with normal erythropoiesis and therefore absence of anemia). Borgaonkar MR.Hemochromatosis. However, these investigators experience has suggested a higher rate. cursor: pointer; Hemochromatosis. Mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular Hb concentration and serum ferritin were also reduced. Available at: http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1864.htm. The JAK2V617F mutation, a point mutation in the tyrosine kinase gene JAK2 (Janus Kinase 2), has emerged as a central feature in the pathogenesis of MPN. Iron removed by phlebotomy was 32.4, 10.4, 15.2, and 4.0 g, respectively. } Buy Copyright 2006 by the Infusion Nurses Society Full Text Access for Subscribers: Lottenberg R, Hassell KL. 2022;46:101503. } Phlebotomy improves therapeutic response to interferon in patients with chronic hepatitis C: A meta-analysis of six prospective randomized controlled trials. The effective rate was 96.7 % in the observation group, which was better than 86.7 % in the control group (p < 0.01). Porphyria cutanea tarda. (b) Therapeutic phlebotomy shall be done only at the written request of the patient's physician or clinical practitioner, whichever is more consistent with AABB Standards. Rotker KL, Alavian M, Nelson B, et al. Key questions were selected according the criterion of clinical relevance. Bacon BR, Kwiatkowski JL. In this review, we examine the major indications for therapeutic phlebotomy and provide guidelines for phlebotomy, its effects and specific treatments, and additional information that may help facilitate the use of therapeutic phlebotomy for South Korean patients. 2016 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the guidelines recommend the use of more restrictive hemoglobin thresholds for transfusion and standard-issue rather than fresh RBCs. # font-weight: bold; Current risk stratification in PV and ET is designed to estimate the likelihood of thrombotic complications: high-risk is defined by the presence of age greater than 60 years or presence of thrombosis history; low-risk is defined by the absence of both of these 2 risk factors. This threshold has been interpreted by some physicians and patients to indicate the need for phlebotomy or blood donation while on TRT. The phlebotomy plus IFN group and the IFN group did not differ with respect to the percentage of patients with cirrhosis or genotype 1. Neurophysiological changes were characterized by an increased cortical excitability, including a decrease of motor thresholds and an enhancement of intra-cortical facilitation and cerebello-thalamo-cortical inhibition. Original research: Use of hydroxyurea and phlebotomy in pediatric patients with hemoglobin SC disease. J Clin Oncol. Hemodynamic effects of staged hematocrit reduction in patients with stable cor pulmonale and severely elevated hematocrit levels. In patients with established iron overload disease, weakness, fatigue, increased hepatic enzyme concentrations, right upper quadrant pain, and hyperpigmentation are often substantially alleviated by therapeutic phlebotomy. Overview of hypertension in adults. Annual TP collections for patients on TRT were 193, 212, and 239, respectively. The degree of risk must be balanced against the burden of chronic transfusions. Juvenile hemochromatosis associated with B-thalassemia treated by phlebotomy and recombinant human erythropoietin. Problems associated with the limited volume of data and clinical and methodological heterogeneity between the studies were acknowledged and addressed by the investigators in the discussion section of the review. 2008;22(8):1494-1502. Their therapeutic effects were observed. >> /Font << /TT2 9 0 R /TT4 11 0 R /TT6 13 0 R >> /XObject << /Im1 7 0 R >> Barbui T, Barosi G, Birgegard G, et al. Gumus, Abbasoglu O, Tanyel C, et al. J Tradit Chin Med. Differential diagnosis of ET had to include chronic myelogenous leukemia and pre-fibrotic myelofibrosis. .newText { An UpToDate review on Approach to the patient with suspected iron overload (Bacon and Kwiatkowski) does not mention phlebotomy as a therapeutic / management option for hyperferritinemia in alcohol liver disease. } Web Design and Development by ol.numberedList LI { This trial was stopped early after enrolment and follow-up of 133 children because of analysis showing futility in reaching the composite primary end-point. Using comprehensive outcomes was also the common problems of most RCTs of traditional Chinese medicine published in Chinese. The authors concluded that during a 28-month follow-up, maintenance of NID was found to be safe and beneficial in all patients, with effects ranging from a complete remission (CR) to a marked reduction of incidence and severity of gouty attacks. 2008;53(3):815-822. Van Buren NL, Hove AJ, French TA, Gorlin JB. Contains Nonbinding Recommendations . Iron overload and prolonged ingestion of iron supplements: Clinical features and mutation analysis of hemochromatosis-associated genes in four cases. Tefferi A. Prognosis and treatment of polycythemia vera. Accessed November 12, 2002. Dermatologica. 2019;25(2):139-146. Follow-up with monthly phlebotomies after discharge yielded a favorable outcome with normal transplant functions. 26:2A-2 et seq., commonly known as the Blood Bank Licensing Act and The mean follow-up was 566 days. 1984;169(4):184-187. It is used mainly to reduce blood volume, red cell mass and iron stores. Extreme hyper-ferritinemia was detected shortly after transplantation. list-style-type: decimal; The clinical course of 2 women affected by beta-thalassemia major was complicated by the onset of porphyria cutanea tarda. Iron overload in mild sideroblastic anaemias. Lastly, these investigators demonstrated that BLT was safer than WM in treating AGA (RR = 0.36, 95 % CI: 0.13 to 0.97, p = 0.04). Furthermore, an UpToDate review on Approach to the patient with suspected iron overload (Schrier and Bacon, 2017) states that In liver disease (e.g., viral hepatitis, alcoholic hepatitis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis), injury to hepatocytes may cause an increase in serum ferritin despite normal total body iron stores The major treatments for iron overload include phlebotomy for those without significant anemia Removal of iron with a course of therapeutic phlebotomy (at least 5 to 6 phlebotomies) with normalization of the ferritin level. Association between porphyria cutanea tarda and beta-thalassemia major. Iron depletion was obtained within 28 weeks and was associated with endogenous production of EPO. Omaha, NE: eMedicine.com; updated December 18, 2001. Implanted central venous access ports for therapeutic phlebotomy in patients with HFE hemochromatosis and other non-thalassemia iron overload disorders J Vasc Access . On the other hand, menstruating women are seldom afflicted by gout, because the monthly blood loss causes them to accumulate iron to a much lesser degree. TRT patients with TP orders increased 71.4 % during this period. Learn more about our new name and brand and watch Di Bisceglie AM, Bonkovsky HL, Chopra S, et al. 2016). } Gumus et al (2017) stated that the use of extended criteria donors who might have previously been deemed unsuitable is an option to increase the organ supply for transplantation. The authors stated that this study had several drawbacks. Yao Q, Zhang X, Mu Y, et al. Patient 3 had no anemia, a normal HFE genotype, and no coding region mutations in HAMP, FPN1, HJV, or ALAS2; she was heterozygous for the TFR2 coding region mutation V583I (nt 1,747 G-->A, exon 15). 4550 Montgomery AvenueSuite 700, North TowerBethesda, MD 20814301.907.6977. The efficacy of bloodletting therapy in patients with acute gouty arthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Guidelines from the American Gastroenterological Association (Dienstagand McHutchison, 2006) on management of hepatitis C concluded that clinical trials have failed to demonstrate the efficacy of phlebotomy in patients with chronic HCV infection, and that phlebotomy cannot currently be recommended as a treatment for HCV infection. Waltham, MA: UpToDate; reviewed May 2015. the concentration of Hb level is known to influence the blood viscosity and its decrease always improved rheology in sickle cell disease patients; the mean corpuscularHb concentration is a critical factor concerning the HbS molecule polymerization in sickle cell disease, and its slight reduction may have an important biological effect. A total of 11 clinical trial papers involving 826 cases of migraine were included in the present paper; 3 of them were high-quality researches, and the other 8 were low quality researches. .newText { A total of 13sickle cell patients not ameliorated by conventional treatment entered a weekly venesection protocol (phlebotomy). The appropriate dose is 75 to 100 mg/day. to advance the field through the development and delivery of standards, accreditation and education programs. Yesterday, I went back to the same blood bank to do a donation, and a new staff worker tells me: "We don't allow donations for people on Testosterone therapy". The main goal of therapy is therefore to prevent thrombo-hemorrhagic complications and this is effectively and safely accomplished by the use of low-dose aspirin (PV and ET), phlebotomy (PV), and hydroxyurea (high-risk PV and ET). Inati A, Kahale M, Sbeiti N, et al. In the combination group, pricking blood was used at the most painful points of the red turgid and painful joint once every 3 days, a total 3 times; moxibustion was applied at the same joint for 15 to 20 mins, once-daily. American Gastroenterological Association medical position statement on the management of hepatitis C. Gastroenterology. Charnow (2018) noted that previous research suggested a plausible link between iron and gout, and ferritin stores excess iron, and urate acts as an iron chelator. endobj Following splenectomy, the patient developed a sustained increase in hematocrit, an increase in the frequency of painful episodes, as well as new-onset dizziness and malaise. UpToDate [online serial]. 1993;87(6):1954-1959. Kaplan-Meyer failure curves were used to estimate time until the development of polycythemia (HCT of greater than 50 %). border-radius: 4px; The authors stated that adequately powered RCTs with detailed pre-treatment iron studies should be considered to evaluate phlebotomy as an adjunct to pegylated IFN, with or without ribavirin. 2004;44(6):833-837. The authors stated that they have presented a protocol for a systematic review of BL for the common cold; they hoped that this study will form the basis to conduct additional research and provide evidence for the use of BL for the common cold. background-color: #663399; In a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), Desai and colleagues (2008) compared phlebotomy and IFN to IFN alone for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC). "Therapeutic phlebotomy" means the removal of whole blood from a donor for the purpose of medical treatment. padding-right: 18px; Chin-Yee et al (2017) noted that polycythemia is the most common adverse effect of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) and may predispose patients to adverse vascular events. 1999;84(3):248-253. Hemochromatosis. Available at:http://www.mayo.edu/cardiologyreview/Chapter63.pdf. }. In the absence of indicators suggestive of significant liver disease (ALT, AST elevation), C282Y homozygotes who have an elevated ferritin (but less than 1,000 g/L) should proceed to phlebotomy without a liver biopsy. AABB; 2008. Yunis NA, Crausman RS. For example, iron, when added to media containing urate crystals, stimulated oxidative stress with subsequent complement and neutrophil activation. Clinical complications, which include liver cirrhosis, heart failure, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and diabetes, appear earlier and are more severe than in HFE-related hemochromatosis. These researchers stated that further rigorously designed trials are needed to confirm these findings. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2017;57(3):578-581. These investigators searched all the original papers about pricking blood therapy for migraine in common databases as the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure Database (CNKI), Chinese Biomedical Library (CBM), Ovid, Science Direct, Socolar, and Sci Finder (1949 to 2012), Wanfang Data (1998 to 2012) and Foreign Medical Journal Service (FMJS, 1990 to 2012). Methods: Patients who require TP are not infrequently told by their health-care providers to "just go donate blood," but TP should always be offered in the context of a prescribed course of therapy. According to guidelines from the Hemochromatosis Management Working Group (Barton et al, 1998), therapeutic phlebotomy should be initiated in men with serum ferritin levels of 300 ug/L or more and in women with 2000;7(3):249-255. The most probable cause of hyper-ferritinemia was iron overload secondary to transplantation of a hemosiderotic liver. Iron reduction as an adjuvant to interferon therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C who have previously not responded to interferon: A multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled trial. Fifth, decreased UA elimination, caused by molybdenum and sulfur binding to copper in the kidneys. Management of hemochromatosis. li.bullet { display: block; There are currently no systematic reviews of blood-letting therapy for chronic urticaria. Omaha, NE: eMedicine.com; updated December 12, 2001. Bloodletting therapy for patients with chronic urticaria: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Zhang et al (2010) examined the therapeutic effect of blood-letting cupping plus herbal medicine for the treatment of AGA. The authors concluded that pricking blood combined with moxibustion could improve the joint symptoms more effectively and the effect was better than ibuprofen orally. Am J Hematol. Lee JA, Hong M, Lee MS, et al. However, all completed clinical trials of hydroxyurea have excluded patients with hemoglobin SC (HbSC) disease; HbSC differs significantly in pathophysiology from HbSS, as HbC does not sickle, but instead causes cellular dehydration which potentiates sickling of HbS. The author examined whether or not iron removal may improve the outcome of gouty arthritis (GA) in humans as well. De Gobbi M, Pasquero P, Brunello F, et al. Garza I, Schwedt TJ. Last year (2022), I gave 2 blood donations to my local blood bank, and I even told one staff worker that i was on TRT. eMedicine Internal Medicine Topic 449. Accessed November 12, 2002. (a) Any person who performs a therapeutic phlebotomy shall obtain a blood bank license before offering the service. A total of 7 RCTs with 637 hypertensive patients from 1989 to 2017 were identified. PHLEBOTOMY : Journal of Infusion Nursing History Articles & Issues Collections CE Videos For Authors Journal Info Previous Abstract Next Abstract STANDARDS: Infusion Therapy 66. z-index: 99; The 2022 AABB Virtual Meeting will be Nov. 6-7. Medicine (Baltimore). for utilization of blood components. Arthritis Res Ther. A decrease in gout flares following phlebotomy to attain NID levels in hyperuricemic patients is also suggestive of a role in gout. Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2014;39(3):232-237. Early attempts to lower iron burden including chelation therapy and/or phlebotomy should be considered to avoid organ toxicity and transplant failure. In addition, the association develops informational documents and guidance regarding a wide range of clinical and technical topics facing transfusion medicine providers. Available at: http://www.cachnet.org/learning_phlebotomy.html. The Endocrine Society guidelines suggest stopping therapy if the hematocrit increases to 54 %. bottom: 20px; These patientshad an Hb level equal to or above 9.5 g/dL. 2013;11:CD003146. Greenway A, Ware RE, Thornburg CD. There was a positive correlation of log(10) serum ferritin and the quantity of iron removed by phlebotomy (p = 0.0371). During maintenance of NID for 28 months, gouty attacks markedly diminished in every patient, from a cumulative amount of 48 and 53 attacks per year before (year -2, -1), to 32, 11 and 7 during induction (year 0) and maintenance (year +1, +2) of NID, respectively. Desai TK, Jamil LH, Balasubramaniam M, et al. 2020;154(1):33-37. The first 2 trials addressed the use of chronic transfusion to prevent primary stroke; the third utilized the drug hydroxycarbamide (hydroxyurea) and phlebotomy to prevent both recurrent (secondary) stroke and iron over-load in patients who had already experienced an initial stroke. Warnes CA. Li S-H, Hu W-S, Wu Q-F, Sun J-G. 2011;29(6):761-770. Second, UA over-production from ATP degradation. Zhu et al (2015) compared the differences in clinical effectiveness between pricking blood combined with moxibustion and Western medication (WM) for the treatment of AGA. as we evolve throughout 2022. Sampietro M, Fiorelli G, Fargion S. Iron overload in porphyria cutanea tarda. Length of treatment varied between 6 and 12 months. Fontana RJ, Israel J, LeClair P, et al. The authors concluded that on the basis of diet intervention, electro-acupuncture plus blood-letting puncture and cupping was a better therapy for AGA. Am J Gastroenterol. The treatment was well-tolerated except for muscle cramps and 1 popliteal vein thrombosis in a patient confined to chair. All 5 RCTs published in manuscript form showed a trend towards a benefit from the phlebotomy plus IFN in attaining SVR, and the results of the meta-analysis were not dependent on any single RCT, since excluding any single RCT did not change the results. Optimal control is to keep the hematocrit below 45 %in men and 42 % in women. \w!0?tA#JvFw;=/3z9^FZ @ @ pYQzEe>7PaewZ"ly1sc8(g. Results of meta-analysis indicated that the therapeutic effect of the pricking blood therapy was significantly superior to that of non-bleeding therapies in relieving migraine [OR = 6.23, 95 % CI: 4.03 to 9.63, Z = 8.24, p < 0.00 001]. Summarell CC, Sheehan VA. Main treatment aims are the reduction of thromboembolic events and the minimization of the risk of myelofibrosis and of acute leukemia. First, uric acid (UA) over-production from increased purines in the diet. 09/21/2022 2006;81(10):760-767. The iron deficiency induced by phlebotomies has no evident deleterious consequence either on height and weight in the children or on intellectual performance in any patients. For this reason, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies are used to improve the symptoms of the common cold. 2008;20(2):191-201, vi. Yao and colleagues (2019) stated that many trials have reported that blood-letting therapy is effective for treating chronic urticaria. Instructions After Your Procedure. The trial closed early due to a significant difference in risk of stroke between participants who stopped transfusion and those who continued as measured by re-occurrence of abnormal velocities on Doppler examination or the occurrence of overt stroke in the group that stopped transfusion. Gout risk possibly linked to iron intake. British Committee for Standards in Haematology. The striking decrease of the number of hospitalization days for all the patients suggests a closed relationship between therapy and clinical improvement. In 2 patients with severe cardiac siderosis, a clinically relevant improvement in myocardial T2* was observed, following phlebotomy and deferasirox therapy (n = 1 each). Risk of stroke in adults with cyanotic congenital heart disease. The third trial (SWiTCH) was a non-inferiority trial comparing transfusion and iron chelation (standard management) with hydroxyurea and phlebotomy (alternative treatment) with the combination end-point of prevention of stroke recurrence and reduction of iron over-load. } background-position: right 65%; Both patients were also suffering from hepatitis C virus infection, iron overload and anemia. Blood-letting therapy for hypertension: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Summarell and Sheehan (2016) stated that hydroxyurea is an excellent therapeutic agent for the pharmacological induction of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). Patients with end-organ damage due to iron overload should undergo regular phlebotomy to the same endpoints as indicated above. Preventive treatment of migraine in adults. Clinical observation of pricking blood combined with moxibustion for acute gouty arthritis. In a review on evidence-based approach for the treatment of adults with sickle cell disease, Lottenberg and Hassell (2005) noted that reports and case series indicated that repeated phlebotomy to lower the hemoglobin (Hb) level and induce iron deficiency can reduce the frequency of painful episodes in selected patients with high steady state Hb levels. Therapeutic Phlebotomy cont'd LSCM.25 3 Martin Health System Stuart, Florida Laboratory Services Therapeutic Whole Blood Phlebotomy Consent Therapeutic phlebotomy requires the removal of blood by venipuncture for medical reason(s). Leave the pressure bandage on your needle site for 3 to 6 hours after your procedure. Current Canadian guidelines recommend regular laboratory monitoring and discontinuing TRT or reducing the dose if the hematocrit exceeds 54% (hemoglobin 180 g/L). Management of acute and cutaneous porphyrias. 2000;31(3):730-736. The Association works collaboratively In the 2 groups, the UA, the hs-CRP, the ESR and the joint syndrome and symptom scores were lower than those before treatment (all p < 0.05). In a Cochrane review, Wang and Dwan (2013) evaluated risks and benefits of chronic blood transfusion regimens in people with sickle cell disease to prevent first stroke or recurrences. 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