Iron is essential to virtually all living organisms and is integral to multiple metabolic functions.
The most important function is oxygen transport in hemoglobin. Iron deficiency anemia in …

Background Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the treatment of choice for
symptomatic cholelithiasis. However, the laparoscopic approach has remained controversial for …

… Giger U: The feline AB blood group system and incompatibility reactions. In Kirk RW (ed): …
Giger U, Akol KG: Acute hemolytic transfusion reaction in an Abyssinian cat with blood type …

The genome sequence (1.9-fold coverage) of an inbred Abyssinian domestic cat was assembled,
mapped, and annotated with a comparative approach that involved cross-reference to …

BACKGROUND: Reliable risk factors for perioperative complications in patients undergoing
laparoscopic cholecystectomy would be extremely useful to optimize the clinical …

Vaccination has been incriminated as a trigger of immune‐mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA)
in dogs and in people, but evidence to support this association is lacking. In a controlled …

Objective —To conduct serologic surveillance for Leishmania spp in English Foxhounds
from a kennel, as well as recipients of blood from these dogs, and determine whether L …

Background Bile duct injury (BDI) remains the most serious complication of laparoscopic
cholecystectomy (LC). A Swiss database was used to identify risk factors for BDI and to assess …

… suggest that the antigenic determinants of the feline AB blood group system contain
carbohydrate moieties similar to blood group systems in humans and other animal species (Giger U …

… Giger U, Akol KG. Acute hemolytic transfusion reaction in an abyssinian cat with blood type
… Stieger K, Palos H, Giger U. Comparison of various bloodtyping methods for the feline AB …