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- Title
Outcome of patients who refuse transfusion after cardiac surgery: a natural experiment with severe blood conservation.
- Authors
Pattakos, Gregory; Koch, Colleen G; Brizzio, Mariano E; Batizy, Lillian H; Sabik, Joseph F, 3rd; Blackstone, Eugene H; Lauer, Michael S
- Abstract
Jehovah's Witness patients (Witnesses) who undergo cardiac surgery provide a unique natural experiment in severe blood conservation because anemia, transfusion, erythropoietin, and antifibrinolytics have attendant risks. Our objective was to compare morbidity and long-term survival of Witnesses undergoing cardiac surgery with a similarly matched group of patients who received transfusions.
- Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2012, Vol 172, Issue 15, p1154
- ISSN
1538-3679
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2449