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3167530

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-11-21
pubmed:abstractText
Blood transfusion has been linked to clinical phenomena attributable to immune suppression. We prospectively studied the relationship between perioperative blood transfusion and postoperative infectious complications in 343 consecutive patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer. Of the 134 patients who received transfusions 33 (24.6 per cent) developed infectious complications compared with 9 (4.3 per cent) of the 209 patients who did not receive blood (P less than 0.0001). The mean number of units of blood received by patients who developed infectious complications significantly exceeded the number for patients without infectious complications (2.31 versus 0.74, P less than 0.0001). The association of transfusion with infections was highly significant (P less than 0.0001) after controlling for age, sex, blood loss, procedure, tumour differentiation, stage, admission haematocrit, duration of surgery, length of the specimen and tumour size. Blood transfusion appears to be an independent risk factor for postoperative infectious complications.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0007-1323
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
75
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
789-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Blood transfusion and infectious complications following colorectal cancer surgery.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y. 10029.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't