Immunology

Transfusion Does Not Pose Risk for Postoperative Septic Morbidity

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 2nd, 1998

Blood transfusion is not a risk factor for postoperative septic morbidity in patients undergoing abdominal surgery, researchers indicated.

Immunosuppression associated with homologous blood transfusion was observed first in patients who had undergone renal allograft transplantation. Clinical effects of transfusion-induced immunosuppression in surgical patients have been debated in the literature for more than a decade, and study results have been contradictory.

R. Bellantone et al. explored whether homologous blood transfusions significantly affect postoperative septic morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing elective surgery for gastric...

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