Open AccessTransfusion of Older Red Blood Cells Increases the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury After Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: A Propensity Score Analysis
Author(s) -
Yue Wang,
Qingshan Liu,
Tao Ma,
Xuemin Liu,
Bo Wang,
Zheng Wu,
Shaog Dang,
Yi Lv,
Rongqian Wu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000002437
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care unit , acute kidney injury , odds ratio , blood transfusion , incidence (geometry) , liver transplantation , complication , transplantation , confidence interval , surgery , physics , optics
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common and serious complication of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Transfusion of older red blood cells (RBCs) has been implicated in poor outcomes in trauma, cardiac surgery, and critically ill patients. However, whether transfusion of older RBCs plays any role in post-OLT AKI remained unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the age of transfused RBCs on post-OLT AKI.