title: Impact of allogenic blood transfusions on temperature, platelet count and differential leukocyte count of patients after coronary artery bypass grafting.
abstract: We compared the median values of temperature, platelet count, white blood cell count and differential leukocyte count (neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes and monocytes) just before and after coronary artery bypass grafting of patients transfused with packed red cell units (n = 119), and not transfused with packed red cell units (n = 98). Just before surgery and at 7 h, 13 h, 22 h, 46 h and 142 h after surgery, blood samples were taken. In the patient group undergoing transfusion lower median values at a significance level of alpha = 0.025 were found of their temperature postoperatively at 7 h, platelets at 22 h, 46 h and 142 h, white blood cell count at 13 h and 22 h, neutrophils at 7 h, 13 h and 22 h, lymphocytes at 46 h and 142 h, compared to the patients not transfused.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Chemistry, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. dolf.harff@cze.nl
authors.forename: Gottfried A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Harff
authors.forename: Caroline C A
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Vrijland
authors.forename: Jan B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Dijkstra
authors.forename: Maria J A
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: van den Bosch
authors.forename: Jacques P A M
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Schönberger
mesh_terms: D001803:Blood Transfusion; D001831:Body Temperature; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D010976:Platelet Count