B-type natriuretic peptide and plasma hemoglobin levels following transfusion of shorter-storage versus longer-storage red blood cells: Results from the TOTAL randomized trial.

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Published in Am Heart J on January 21, 2016

Authors

Aggrey Dhabangi1, Brenda Ainomugisha2, Christine Cserti-Gazdewich3, Henry Ddungu4, Dorothy Kyeyune5, Ezra Musisi5, Robert Opoka6, Christopher P Stowell7, Walter H Dzik8

Author Affiliations

1: Child Health and Development Centre, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
2: Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
3: University Health Network Laboratory Medicine Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
4: Uganda Cancer Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
5: Uganda National Blood Transfusion Service, Kampala, Uganda.
6: Mulago Hospital Department of Paediatrics, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
7: Massachusetts General Hospital Blood Transfusion Service, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
8: Blood Transfusion Service, Room J-224, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA, 02114. Electronic address: sdzik@mgh.harvard.edu.

Associated clinical trials:

RBC Transfusion in Severe Anemia With Lactic Acidosis (TOTAL) | NCT01586923

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