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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 47, 529-532, Copyright © 1989 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Predonated autologous blood use in elective cardiac surgery

LW Britton, DT Eastlund, SW Dziuban, ED Foster, JB McIlduff, TE Canavan and TM Older
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Albany Medical College, New York 12208.

The risks of homologous blood transfusion are well documented and recently increased with the emergence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Preoperative autologous donation has been suggested to reduce these risks. This is a report concerning 104 consecutive adult autologous donors (group 1) who had an elective cardiac operation. A similar group of 111 patients operated on during the same period but without autologous blood donation was used for comparison (group 2). Both groups contained similar numbers of patients with coronary artery disease, valvular disease, and mixed lesions, and both had several patients with atrial septal defects. Group 2 patients (mean age, 67.8 years) were significantly older than group 1 patients (mean age, 58.9 years) (p less than 0.05). The mean donation in group 1 was 4.1 units, but 12 (11.5%) had to discontinue donations. Increasing angina in 10 (12.2%) of the 82 patients with coronary artery disease was the most common complication, and necessitated hospitalization in two instances. In 77 (75.5%) of the 102 group 1 patients who had operation and 23 (21%) of the 110 group 2 patients, no homologous blood products were required. Group 1 patients used significantly less homologous fresh frozen plasma (0.1 unit versus 0.97 unit; p less than 0.005) and packed red blood cells (0.6 unit versus 2.1 units; p less than 0.001) than group 2 patients. Group 1 patients received 3.3 and 3.1 units of autologous packed cells and plasma, respectively. No complications of autologous transfusion were seen. Predonation of autologous blood is an effective, safe method of reducing homologous blood requirements in elective cardiac operations, but it does carry some risk, especially in patients with coronary artery disease.

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