title: [Preoperative hemodilution before elective resections of colorectal cancers for sparing homologous blood transfusion].
abstract: The records of 389 patients following elective resection of colorectal carcinoma were analysed in order to examine perioperative transfusion. Preoperative hemoglobin levels of 12.8 g/dl in women and 14.2 g/dl in men were found (p less than 0.01). Only 11% of the patients had an anemia. Increasing age and sex had both a significant relation to decreasing preoperative hemoglobin level and higher frequency of transfusion (p less than 0.01). Women got perioperative more often blood transfusion (84.4%). On an average 2.1 units of blood were transfused. There were no relation to tumor stage or tumor location be found (p greater than 0.01). 48.8% of the patients had attendant diseases. Cardiac insufficiency and pulmonary diseases became more frequent. Excluding all patients with contraindication to preoperative hemodilution it was possible to do preoperative hemodilution by 61.2% of the patients. In conclusion preoperative hemodilution should be done before elective resection of colorectal cancer if there was no contraindications to reduce the number of autologous blood transfusion.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Abteilung, Marien-Hospitals Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Graupe
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Böhm
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Hucke
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stock
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016913:Blood Component Transfusion; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D003082:Colectomy; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006438:Hemodilution / Q000379:methods*; D006452:Hemoglobinometry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000097:blood; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Präoperative Hämodilution vor elektiven Resektionen kolorektaler Karzinome zur Einsparung von Fremdblut.