Risk factors and outcomes of massive red blood cell transfusion following living donor liver transplantation

Journal of Digestive Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 161-167

  Li, Chuan ^a   Mi, Kai ^a   Wen, Tian Fu ^a   Yan, Lu Nan ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Wei, Yong Gang ^a   Yang, Jia Ying ^a   Xu, Ming Qing ^a   Wang, Wen Tao ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Living donor liver transplantation; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BILE DUCT STONE; BRAIN DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER HYDATID CYST; LIVER INJURY; LIVER POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASSIVE RED BLOOD CELL TRANSFUSION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD VOLUME; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84863131152     PISSN: 17512972     EISSN: 17512980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-2980.2011.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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