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Introduction: Transmission of infectious diseases through donated blood is of concern to blood safety as transfusion forms an integral part of medical and surgical therapy. Blood transfusion carries the risk of transfusion-transmittable infections including HIV, hepatitis–B etc. Screening of voluntary donors who represent healthy population serves as a predictor for these dreadful diseases in healthy population. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study was conducted at the blood bank of Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Bengaluru. Data were analyzed for a period of 7 years from January 2011 to December 2017. All voluntary donors including replacement donors of our blood bank were screened for Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Syphilis infection by using ELISA. Results: The most common infection was Hepatitis B (0.69%) followed by Syphilis (0.34%) and HIV (0.0736%) and least with HCV (0.04%) in our study. Conclusion: This study has shown a decrease in seroprevalence for HIV and increase in seroprevalence for HCV over 7 years study period.
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This paper addresses our experience with primary (15 patients) and secondary (8 patients) tracheo-oesophageal puncture (TEP) in the laryngectomee. Despite a success rate of 93.3 percent in the primary TEP and 62.5 percent in secondary TEP, in a follow-up period of one month to eight years, prosthesis related problems like maintenance and recurring expenses emerged as significant deterrent factors in adopting prosthetic speech rehabilitation. Successful oesophageal speech training, increased practice of Pearson's near total laryngectomy, prior tracheostomy and advanced disease mandating post-operative radiotherapy in majority of patients are some of the factors in addition to prosthesis after-care maintenance that makes TEP a less practiced option at our center.