Effect of blood transfusion on long-term survival after cardiac operation.
The authors studied a database of 1,915 patients who underwent isolated first time myocardial revascularization between 1994 and 1997 and found that blood transfusions during or after coronary artery bypass […]
Transfusion-related alloimmune neutropenia: an undescribed complication of blood transfusion.
Interesting, but very rare adverse reaction that needs not be treated as long as no bacterial infection complicates the situation. Then antibiotics are the therapy of choice, and not granulocyte […]
Survival, function, and hemolysis of shed red blood cells processed as nonwashed blood and washed red blood cells.
This paper adds further evidence that intraoperatively salvaged blood is of high quality with regard to RBC function and viability. This is especially true for washed RBCs. The hemolysis and […]
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.