title: [Experience of predeposit autologous blood transfusion and medication of recombinant human erythropoietin in pediatric open heart surgery].
abstract: To avoid using the homologous blood, 11 children between the age of 5 and 15 years donated autologous blood of 10 ml/kg of body weight (upper limit 400 ml) once a week for two weeks prior to elective open heart surgery. Five of 11 children received erythropoietin (100 U/kg of body weight) intravenously three times a week for two weeks. Only one patient experienced a mild donor reaction but no adverse effects occurred in erythropoietin therapy. In all the patients cardiac operations were able to be completed without homologous blood transfusion. Patients treated with erythropoietin were not anemic despite of preoperative donation although without erythropoietin therapy patients were mildly anemic. Our experience documents safety and effectiveness of predeposit autologous blood transfusion and erythropoietin therapy in pediatrics.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Horiba
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Itou
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Terada
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takinami
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ishigami
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakatuji
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D004921:Erythropoietin