Blood transfusion in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction.

By Wen‐Chih Wu, S. Rathore, Yongfei Wang, M. Radford, H. Krumholz. New England Journal of Medicine, 2001

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Efficacy of red blood cell transfusion in the critically ill: A systematic review of the literature* (2008, background): “(49) Retrospective cohort 78,974 Decreased mortality with Hct 33 Benefits outweigh risks Yes”
Relationship of blood transfusion and clinical outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes. (2004, background): “Furthermore, prior observational studies have shown an association between anemia and increased mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease.(10,19) In this circumstance, there are no definitive data that show that treating anemia with blood transfusion either mitigates myocardial ischemia or i”
Transfusion requirements after cardiac surgery: the TRACS randomized controlled trial. (2010, background): “89]; hematocrit range, 30-33).(41) In our study, patients with cardiovascular disease did not have adverse outcomes when a hematocrit threshold of 24% was used.”
Morbidity and mortality risk associated with red blood cell and blood-component transfusion in isolated coronary artery bypass grafting* (2006, background): “(19) described a benefit for PRBC transfusion in patients who were elderly and had low admission hematocrit values ( 30%), they also reported that for those patients with hematocrit values of 36% and who received PRBC transfusions had a higher risk of death within 30 days than patients with a simila”
Anemia is associated with worse symptoms, greater impairment in functional capacity and a significant increase in mortality in patients with advanced heart failure. (2002, methodology): “A recent observational study showed reduction in 30-day mortality in patients with Hct 33% who received blood transfusion during hospitalization for MI compared to those who were not transfused (26).”