Impact of more restrictive blood transfusion strategies on clinical outcomes: a meta-analysis and systematic review

SR Salpeter, JS Buckley, S Chatterjee - The American journal of medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
… , 12 By that time, the practice of blood transfusion was so ingrained in our medical framework
… on the transfusion trigger instead of addressing whether transfusions are beneficial at all. …

Meta-analysis of plasma to red blood cell ratios and mortality in massive blood transfusions for trauma

A Bhangu, D Nepogodiev, H Doughty, DM Bowley - Injury, 2013 - Elsevier
… The current military paradigm for blood transfusion in major trauma favours high … blood cell
(RBC) ratios during massive transfusion for trauma decrease mortality, using meta-analysis of …

Effect of perioperative blood transfusions on recurrence of colorectal cancer: meta-analysis stratified on risk factors

AC Amato, M Pescatori - Diseases of the colon & rectum, 1998 - journals.lww.com
… ence of perioperative blood transfusions on colorectal … meta-analysis. RESULTS: One
hundred thirty-one articles were identified, and 99 of them were excluded because they analyzed

Ultrafiltration reduces blood transfusions following cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis

M Boodhwani, K Williams, A Babaev… - European journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… This idea is supported by the results of this meta-analysis in which the effect of ultrafiltration
on blood transfusions and postoperative bleeding was greater in trials evaluating MUF rather …

WBC‐containing allogeneic blood transfusion and mortality: a metaanalysis of randomized controlled trials

EC Vamvakas - Transfusion, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
meta-analytic estimate when statistical heterogeneity is present, the results of separate studies
were integrated in this meta-analysis … for inclusion in the meta-analysis. Therefore, before …

Association of blood transfusion with increased mortality in myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis and diversity-adjusted study sequential analysis

S Chatterjee, J Wetterslev, A Sharma… - JAMA internal …, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
… and harm of blood transfusion in myocardial infarction remain controversial. In the present
meta-analysis, we systematically evaluated the potential risk-benefit of blood transfusion in …

Allogeneic blood transfusion increases the risk of postoperative bacterial infection: a meta-analysis

GE Hill, WH Frawley, KE Griffith… - Journal of Trauma …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
… in this meta-analysis was 13,152 (5,215 in the transfused group and 7,937 in the nontransfused
group). The common odds ratio for all articles included in this meta-analysis evaluating …

The intention‐to‐treat principle in clinical trials and metaanalyses of leukoreduced blood transfusions in surgical patients

N Blumberg, H Zhao, H Wang, S Messing… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… of 4813) received no transfusions at all, we chose to analyze only the patients who actually
received transfusions to maximize the scientific validity of the meta-analysis, as has been …

Association between perioperative blood transfusions and clinical outcomes in patients undergoing bladder cancer surgery: a systematic review and metaanalysis …

JP Cata, J Lasala, G Pratt, L Feng… - … of Blood Transfusion, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… the findings of this meta-analysis. Furthermore, the results of … blood transfusion since it is
assumed that all studies included in the meta-analysis reported outcomes in patients transfused

Perioperative blood transfusion and cancer recurrence: metaanalysis for explanation

EC Vamvakas - Transfusion, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
… However, the findings of the meta-analysis may permit a limited degree of cautious
speculation about the existence and/or size of any true, deleterious transfusion effect. The latter …