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Short-term Mortality Higher in Transfused TAVR Patients

Patients who receive red blood cell transfusions after TAVR fare worse in the first 30 days compared with others, results from the TRITAVI registry show. In a propensity-matched analysis, transfusion ...
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New mapping model can help cities efficiently deploy blood resources to patients most in need

Using data from hospitals and emergency medical service providers to map out areas with the greatest need for trauma care and prehospital whole blood transfusions can enable hospital systems to deploy ...
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An exploratory analysis of transfusion risk when initiating darbepoetin alfa (DA) therapy at baseline hemoglobin (Hb) < 9 g/dl vs 9 to < 10 g/dl versus ≥ 10 g/dl in patients ...

Evaluation of variants of the rs1934951 locus of CYP2C8 and bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw in castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients. Interpretation of do-not-resuscitate ...
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Costs of blood transfusion: a process-flow analysis.

First-cycle blood counts and subsequent neutropenia, dose reduction, or delay in early-stage breast cancer therapy. We performed a process-flow analysis to identify all costs of transfusing 2 U of ...