Allogenic blood transfusion is an independent risk factor for infective complications after less invasive gastrointestinal surgery

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 188-193

  Ikuta, Shin Ichi ^a   Miki, Chikao ^a   Hatada, Tsuyoshi ^a   Inoue, Yasuhiro ^a   Araki, Toshimitsu ^a   Tanaka, Kouji ^a   Tonouchi, Hitoshi ^a   Kusunoki, Masato ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Cytokine; Postoperative complication

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE ACID PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 0037334451     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(02)01370-3     Document Type: Article

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