Effects of Red-Cell Storage Duration on Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
Author(s) -
Marie E. Steiner,
Paul M. Ness,
Susan F. Assmann,
Darrell J. Triulzi,
Steven R. Sloan,
Meghan Delaney,
Suzanne Granger,
Elliott BennettGuerrero,
Morris A. Blajchman,
Vincent Scavo,
Jeffrey L. Carson,
Jerrold H. Levy,
Glenn Whitman,
Pamela D’Andrea,
Shelley Pulkrabek,
Thomas L. Ortel,
Larissa Bornikova,
Thomas J. Raife,
Kathleen E. Puca,
Richard M. Kaufman,
Gregory A. Nuttall,
Pampee P. Young,
Samuel Youssef,
Richard M. Engelman,
Philip E. Greilich,
Ronald H. Miles,
Cassandra D. Josephson,
Arthur Bracey,
Rhonda Cooke,
Jeffrey McCullough,
Robert Hunsaker,
Lynne Uhl,
Janice G. McFarland,
Yara Park,
Melissa M. Cushing,
C.T. Klodell,
Ravindra Karanam,
Pamela R. Roberts,
Cornelius Dyke,
Eldad A. Hod,
Christopher P. Stowell
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1414219
Subject(s) - medicine , adverse effect , observational study , cardiac surgery , red cell , surgery , blood transfusion
Some observational studies have reported that transfusion of red-cell units that have been stored for more than 2 to 3 weeks is associated with serious, even fatal, adverse events. Patients undergoing cardiac surgery may be especially vulnerable to the adverse effects of transfusion.
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