Topical use of tranexamic acid can effectively decrease hidden blood loss during posterior lumbar spinal fusion surgery

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 96, Issue 42, 2017, Pages

  Ren, Zhinan ^a   Li, Shugang ^a   Sheng, Lin ^a   Zhuang, Qianyu ^a   Li, Zheng ^a   Xu, Derong ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Jiang, Pengxiang ^a   Zhang, Xiao ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

hematocrit; hidden blood loss; lumbar spinal fusion; tranexamic acid; wound drainage

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIDDEN BLOOD LOSS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTERIOR LUMBAR SPINAL FUSION; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; TOPICAL TREATMENT; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRAINAGE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EVALUATION STUDY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SPINE FUSION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TRANEXAMIC ACID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85032477424     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000008233     Document Type: Article

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