Transfusion
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Exploratory studies on the age of transfused blood and in-hospital mortality in patients with cardiovascular diagnoses.
The objective was to examine the association between blood storage duration and in-hospital mortality in a large cohort of cardiovascular patients transfused between 2002 and 2011. ⋯ The analysis of a large cohort of cardiovascular patients showed no association between storage age of blood and in-hospital mortality. This finding is inconsistent with those of our previous report that analyzed a smaller cohort.