Blood transfusions in the surgical patient: A gift of life, but at what cost?

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 216-218

  Reddy, Sanjay S ^a   Leitman, I Michael ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EDEMA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; NOTE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; VASCULAR SURGERY;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84876417494     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.02.031     Document Type: Note

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