welcomes you to the new, improved website!Patients undergoing elective or urgent cardiac surgery who were anemic at the time of surgery were compared to a matched population who were not anemic. Anemia was associated with increased mortality during follow-up, but blood transfusion was not associated with mortality.
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Association Between Anemia and Blood Transfusion With Long-term Mortality After Cardiac Surgery
Submitted by: Emily Robinson
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.04.044
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Author(s): Hari Padmanabhan, Matthew J. Brookes, Alan M. Nevill, Heyman Luckraz
