Erythropoietin provides a useful strategy for treating preoperative anemia in planned elective orthopedic surgery: An analysis of benefit in routine practice

Transfusion

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2063-2064

  Qureshi, Moosa ^a   Momoh, Ibrahim ^b   Bankes, Marcus ^c   Earnshaw, Peter ^c   Radia, Deepti ^a   Harrison, Claire ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Orthopaedics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; ENOXAPARIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERRIC HYDROXIDE SUCROSE; FERRITIN; FERROUS SULFATE; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ANEMIA; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; THROMBOSIS; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865730190     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2012.03722.x     Document Type: Letter

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