In the developed world, most of the reported complications of transfusion have an immunological basis. Although the media and the public are worried about the infectious risks of transfusion, ...

Literature supports an association between transfusions and gut injury in preterm infants. We hypothesized that packed red blood (PRBC) transfusions are associated with kidney inflammation marked by a ...

The association between perioperative blood transfusion (PBT) with adverse oncological outcomes have been previously reported in multiple malignancies including RCC. Nevertheless, the importance of ...

IN patients with severe chronic anemia, whether or not it is amenable to treatment with specific therapy, the administration of blood transfusions is often necessary to provide immediate symptomatic ...

Jeffrey Carson spent more than a decade persuading hospitals that fewer, resource-saving blood transfusions work just as well as more frequent transfusions for most patients. More recently, the ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. Doctors may recommend blood transfusions as part of AML treatment. The specific transfusion type and associated risks ...

Perioperative anemia and red blood cell transfusions are important risk factors for morbidity and mortality in cardiac ...

No human subjects were enrolled in the study. This is an analysis of publicly available data. All calculations were performed in Microsoft Excel 2003 (Microsoft, Redmond, WA). Multivariate simulations ...