Impact of a restrictive vs liberal transfusion strategy on anastomotic leakage and infectious complications after restorative surgery for rectal cancer

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 772-780

  Ozben, V ^a   Stocchi, L ^a   Ashburn, J ^a   Liu, X ^a   Gorgun, E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

anastomotic leakage; infectious complications; rectal cancer surgery; Transfusion threshold

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER STAGING; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIBERAL TRANSFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; ORGAN SURGICAL SITE INFECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; RESTRICTIVE TRANSFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPACE SURGICAL SITE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TUMOR VOLUME; AGED; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RECTUM TUMOR; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MARGIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MARGINS OF EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCTOCOLECTOMY, RESTORATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRANSFUSION REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 85026773694     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/codi.13641     Document Type: Article

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