Survival advantage of using autologous blood transfusion during surgery for esophageal cancer.
This interesting article raises once again the issue of whether or not allogeneic transfusion can hasten the relapse of cancer and shorten overall survival. There is a lot of information […]
Transfusion and outcome in heart surgery. [Editorial]
The Editorial by Bruce Spiess enthusiastically supports the work of Engoren et al. on the effects of blood transfusions on long-term survival after coronary artery bypass surgery while recognizing that […]
Is homologous blood transfusion a risk factor for infection after hip replacement?
Note: It is difficult to ascertain transfusion as a factor entirely separate from co-morbidity. – F. Regan and M. Contreras.
Percutaneous radiofrequency (RF) ablation of liver tumors.
Chagnon and colleagues provide with detailed description of treatment approaches to liver cancer. They focus on the use of radiofrequency ablation of lesions coupled with ultrasonographic imaging as a guide […]