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From: Perioperative blood transfusion is associated with a gene transcription profile characteristic of immunosuppression: a prospective cohort study

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Perioperative blood transfusion, infectious complications and survival. Graph A represents the proportions of patients developing postoperative infectious complications amongst those patients receiving a blood transfusion in the first 24 hours and in those patients not receiving a blood transfusion during this time period. Graph B represents the proportions of patients either dying in hospital or surviving to hospital discharge amongst those patients that received a blood transfusion in the first 24 hours (2 patients died out of a total of 15) and in those patients that did not receive a blood transfusion during this time period (1 patient died out of a total of 104).

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ISSN: 1364-8535