PURPOSE To review records of 161 consecutive hip surgery patients for whom preoperative autologous blood donation (PABD) was used in combination with intra-operative cell salvage (ICS). METHODS 114 women and 14 men aged 41 to 86 (mean, 64) years underwent 135 primary total hip arthroplasties (THAs), whereas 19 women and 7 men aged 16 to 52 (mean, 35) years underwent 26 rotational acetabular o...

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most common surgeries over the last decade. Patients undergoing TKR are at high risk for postoperative anemia and furthermore for allogeneic blood transfusions (ABT). Complications associated with ABT including chills, rigor, fever, dyspnea, light-headedness should be early recognized in order to lead to a better prognosis. Therefore, perioperative blo...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A blood transfusion is almost inevitable in neonatal cardiac surgery. This study aimed to assess the feasibility of using autologous cord blood for a cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) priming as an alternative to an allo-transfusion in neonatal cardiac surgery. SUBJECTS AND METHODS From January 2012 to December 2014, cord blood had been collected during delivery after inf...

We are reporting a case of autologous blood transfusion in a patient who underwent a repair of her aortic aneurysm. Even though the operation was major and carried a high mortality, no homologous blood was used at all.

Background: Based on several in vitro experiments, it has been suggested that autologous blood transfusion might lead to immunomodulation and that this effect might be prevented by leukocyte depletion. Clinical studies with surrogate endpoints showed conflicting results, whereas studies documenting clinically relevant outcomes were either too small or methodologically suboptimal to answer this ...

A prospective study was undertaken to assess the efficacy and financial cost of the use of an autologous blood transfusion device in the reduction of allogeneic blood requirements of patients undergoing primary unilateral total knee arthroplasty. Forty-nine consecutive patients received either the CellTrans blood salvage device (group A of 32 patients) or the Redivac high vacuum drainage system...

The purpose of this study has been to evaluate the use of preoperative autologous blood donation (PABD) in the surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). The surgical records of 37 AIS patients, Lenke type 1, were reviewed. Patients were classified according to whether they had entered the PABD (Program of Autologous Blood Donation) (25 patients) or had been rejected to join (...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Efficacy of minimal acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) in avoiding homologous blood transfusion during cardiovascular surgery remains controversial. Postoperative bleeding and transfusion remain a source of morbidity and cost after open heart operations. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of minimal ANH on blood transfusion requirements during open cardiovascular...