Transfusion of buffy coat-depleted blood components and risk of postoperative infection in orthopedic patients

Transfusion

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 625-632

  Innerhofer, Petra ^a   Walleczek, C ^a   Luz, G ^a   Hobisch Hagen, P ^a   Benzer, A ^a   Stockl B ^a   Hessenberger, G ^a   Nussbaumer, W ^a   Schobersberger, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RATE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; PELVIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SPINE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033023656     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1999.39060625.x     Document Type: Article

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