Detection and removal of fat particles from postoperative salvaged blood in orthopedic surgery.
Ramirez G, Romero A, Garcia-Vallejo JJ, Munoz M
Transfusion 2002;42(1):66-75.
Review by Gombotz H; Hansen E
Exposure to allogeneic plasma and risk of postoperative pneumonia and/or wound infection in coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Vamvakas EC, Carven JH
Transfusion 2002;42(1):107-113.
Review by Kretschmer V
Legal, financial, and public health consequences of HIV contamination of blood and blood products in the 1980s and 1990s.
Weinberg PD, Hounshell J, Sherman LA, et al.
Ann Intern Med 2002;19;136(4):312-319.
Review by
Clinical significance of RBC alloantibodies and autoantibodies in sickle cell patients who received transfusions.
The study shows that transfusion of blood matched for Rh and Kell systems would reduce alloimmunization to 27% and reduce delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction, but... Read More
Reduction in erythropoietin doses by the use of chronic intravenous iron supplementation in iron-replete hemodialysis patients.
Chang CH, Chang CC, Chiang SS
Clin Nephrol 2002;57(2):136-141.
Review by Gasche C
Iron administration and clinical outcomes in hemodialysis patients.
Feldman HI, Santanna J, Guo WS, et al.
J Am Soc Nephrol 2002;13(3):734-744.
Review by Gasche C
Potential role for rFVIIa in transfusion medicine.
Hedner U, Erhardtsen E
Transfusion 2002;42(1):114-124.
Review by Aldouri M
Successful use of recombinant activated factor VII for trauma-associated hemorrhage in a patient without preexisting coagulopathy.
O’Neill PA, Bluth M, Gloster ES, et al.
J Trauma 2002;52(2):400-405.
Review by Aldouri M