title: Long-term survival after colorectal surgery associated with buffy-coat-poor and leucocyte-depleted blood transfusion: a follow-up study.
abstract: A Danish clinical trial showed that transfusion with leucocyte-depleted red blood cells reduces postoperative infectious complications compared with cells without buffy-coat. However, the effect on long-term outcome is unknown. We followed up the 142 cancer patients transfused with buffy-coat-poor red cells, the 118 transfused with leucocyte-depleted blood, and the 329 who were not transfused, until 2003. After 7 years' follow-up, survival for those with leucocyte-depleted blood transfusion (46 [41%]) was not significantly different from transfusion of blood without buffy-coat (59 [45%], p=0.51). Although survival is reduced by blood transfusion, it does not differ between the two transfusion regimens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery L, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark. lonej@dadlnet.dk
authors.forename: Lone S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: Erzsebet
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Puho
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.forename: Frank V
authors.initials: FV
authors.lastname: Mortensen
authors.forename: Henrik Toft
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Sørensen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D001781:Blood Component Removal; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D017707:Erythrocyte Transfusion; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D015996:Survival Rate