Blood Transfusion

Very low-birth-weight infants who received blood transfusions from female donors had a lower risk for mortality and/or serious morbidity than those who received transfusions from male donors, study results showed.

Blood transfusion did not significantly improve the prognosis of patients with digestive bleeding by esophageal varices, according to a study in Open Access Journal of Gastroenterology.

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According to published results, every 15-minute increase in operative time is associated with a higher likelihood of wound complications, blood transfusion and prolonged length of hospital stay after revision total knee arthroplasty.

In patients with anemia who present with MI, a restrictive blood transfusion strategy was noninferior to liberal transfusion for preventing major adverse CV events at 30 days, according to results of the REALITY trial.

An HIV outbreak among children in Sindh, Pakistan, was associated with multiple recent injections or infusions, blood transfusion and a higher number of visits to health care facilities, according to results of a case-control study.

Use of a quality improvement initiative effectively decreased blood transfusions and kept transfusions within the American Association of Blood Banks guidelines in patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty, according to results.

Use of intravenous tranexamic acid in revision total knee arthroplasty significantly reduced transfusion rates by almost twofold, according to study results.

Luspatercept reduced the severity of anemia compared with placebo among certain patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, according to results of a randomized phase 3 trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Patients had a low incidence of 30-day unplanned admission after hip arthroscopy, with chronic corticosteroid use, perioperative transfusions and greater BMI identified as independent risk factors, according to published results.