"Jehovah's Witnesses" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Members of a religious denomination founded in the United States during the late 19th century in which active evangelism is practiced, the imminent approach of the millennium is preached, and war and organized government authority in matters of conscience are strongly opposed (from American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). Jehovah's Witnesses generally refuse blood transfusions and other blood-based treatments based on religious belief.
| Descriptor ID |
D033221
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.844.188.573 M01.352
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| Concept/Terms |
Jehovah's Witnesses- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Jehovah Witnesses
- Jehovahs Witnesses
- Witnesses, Jehovah's
- Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Jehovah's Witnesses" by people in Profiles.
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Lung resection surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients: a 20-year single-center experience. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2022 Oct 20; 17(1):272.
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Bloodless chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in Jehovah's Witnesses. Leuk Lymphoma. 2021 06; 62(6):1497-1501.
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Successful endovascular repair of aortic rupture caused by axillary intra-aortic balloon insertion for a Jehovah's Witness patient with situs inversus anomaly. J Card Surg. 2020 Sep; 35(9):2410-2413.
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Bilateral sequential lung transplantation in Jehovah's Witnesses. Perfusion. 2021 Oct; 36(7):672-676.
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HeartNet™ in an explanted heart of a Jehovah's Witness. J Card Surg. 2018 Nov; 33(11):765.
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Cardiovascular surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients: The role of preoperative optimization. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 Oct; 150(4):976-83.e1-3.
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Successful use of ECMO in a Jehovah's Witness after complicated re-heart transplant. ASAIO J. 2013 Sep-Oct; 59(5):528-9.
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A premature infant with necrotizing enterocolitis whose parents are Jehovah's Witnesses. Pediatrics. 2010 Jul; 126(1):151-5.
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When clinical medicine collides with religion. Lancet. 2003 Dec; 362 Suppl:s28-9.