During either radical prostatectomy or radical cystectomy, patients may lose a considerable amount of blood. Conventionally, these patients receive a blood transfusion using allogeneic, banked blood, ...

Blood replacement may be required in obstetric practice during caesarean section, or after vaginal delivery in patients with conditions such as placenta previa or placenta accreta. The usual method of ...

Using cell salvage, the reinfusion of red blood cells lost during surgery, did not lead on average to a statistically significant reduction in the rates of blood transfusion needed by all women ...

Nine patients with critical limb ischemia were enrolled: one man with thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease), one woman with thromboembolic disease and seven patients with arteriosclerosis ...