Mortality after transfusions, relation to donor sex

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 221-229

  Middelburg, R A ^a   Briet E ^a   Van der Bom, J G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Donor sex; Mortality; Recipient sex; Sex mismatch

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 80052927984     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2011.01487.x     Document Type: Article

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