An open-label, randomized study to compare the safety and efficacy of perioperative epoetin alfa with preoperative autologous blood donation in total joint arthroplasty

Orthopedics

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Stowell, Christopher P ^a   Chandler, Hugh ^a   Jové, Maurice ^b   Guilfoyle, Mary ^c   Wacholtz, Mary C ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Atlanta Knee and Sports Medicine   (United States)

^c R W JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL RES I   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; EPOETIN ALFA; HEMATINICS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032903676     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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