Indications for and Adverse Effects of Red-Cell Transfusion

N Engl J Med. 2017 Sep 28;377(13):1261-1272. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1612789.

Authors

Jeffrey L Carson¹, Darrell J Triulzi¹, Paul M Ness¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ ( J.L.C.); the Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (D.J.T.); and the Department of Pathology, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (P.M.N.).

PMID: 28953438
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1612789

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Adult
Cardiovascular Diseases / therapy
Child
Erythrocyte Transfusion* / adverse effects
Erythrocyte Transfusion* / standards
Erythrocyte Transfusion* / statistics & numerical data
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / therapy
Hemoglobins / analysis
Humans
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Transfusion Reaction*

Substances

Hemoglobins