Beneficial effect of operation-day blood-transfusions on human renal-allograft survival.
In 56 patients 1-year renal-graft survival was significantly better (71% vs 40%) in those who had received blood before operation, confirming previous observations. In addition, transfusion on the day of operation proved to have been beneficial, both in those previously transfused (82% vs 64%) and in those never previously transfused (71% vs 28%). Irrespective of pretransplant transfusion, 1-year graft survival was significantly better (79% vs 44%) in those transfused on the day of operation.
D001803:Blood Transfusion; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous