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Morbidity and mortality risk associated with red blood cell and blood-component transfusion in isolated coronary artery bypass grafting.

Colleen Gorman CG Koch, Liang L Li, Andra I AI Duncan, Tomislav T Mihaljevic, Delos M DM Cosgrove, Floyd D FD Loop, Norman J NJ Starr, and Eugene H EH Blackstone

Crit Care Med 34(6):1608-16 (2006) PMID 16607235

Our objective was to quantify incremental risk associated with transfusion of packed red blood cells and other blood components on morbidity after coronary artery bypass grafting.

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DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000217920.48559.D8
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