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Preoperative iron supp and intraoperative transfusion colorectal cancer surgery
Preoperative iron supplementation and intraoperative transfusion during colorectal cancer surgery.
Okuyama M, Ikeda K, Shibata T, Tsukahara Y, Kitada M, Shimano T.
Department of Surgery, Toyonaka Municipal Hospital, 4-14-1 Shibahara-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8565, Japan.
PURPOSE: To investigative whether giving an iron preparation to anemic patients before colorectal cancer surgery improves their anemia and reduces the need for intraoperative blood transfusion. METHODS: Among 569 patients who underwent colorectal cancer surgery between 1998 and 2003, we studied 32 anemic patients who received iron supplementation for at least 2 weeks preoperatively (group A) and 84 anemic patients who did not (group B). Anemia was defined as a hemoglobin (Hb) level at first presentation of
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