Blood transfusions can take 1 to 4 hours. A blood transfusion involves giving you blood from a donor via an intravenous (IV) line. Sometimes, you may receive your own blood if it was collected ...

Background Up to half of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) require cardiac surgery. Although anaemia is common, its precise prevalence, transfusion practices and impact on outcomes in ...

A blood transfusion is a procedure during which donated blood is added to your own blood in your body. Blood transfusions boost blood levels that are low. You may need a blood transfusion due to ...

Blood donation and transfusion save lives. Unfortunately, there’s also a long history of misinformation and fear around donations. For example, there was a time when blood donation was segregated by ...

THE pathogenesis and treatment of the vascular collapse often attending myocardial infarction have perplexed investigators for many years. Particularly vigorous in recent years has been the debate ...

Transfusion reactions are medical complications that arise after a blood transfusion. They may occur during the transfusion (known as acute) or weeks after it (delayed). They're further classified ...

HOUSTON — In early December, a nurse at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center gave a 23-year-old leukemia patient a blood transfusion that, unbeknownst to the medical staff, had become ...

No human subjects were enrolled in the study. This is an analysis of publicly available data. All calculations were performed in Microsoft Excel 2003 (Microsoft, Redmond, WA). Multivariate simulations ...