Red blood cell transfusions and tissue oxygenation in anemic hematology outpatients

Koray Yuruk, Sebastiaan A. Bartels, Dan M. J. Milstein, Rick Bezemer, Bart J. Biemond, Can Ince

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: There is little clinical evidence that red blood cell (RBC) transfusions improve oxygen availability at the microcirculatory level. We tested the hypotheses that anemia in chronically anemic patients with relatively healthy microcirculation would be associated with low tissue hemoglobin (Hb) and tissue oxygenation levels and that these conditions would be improved after RBC transfusions
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)641-646
JournalTransfusion
Volume52
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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