... coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) led to an extensive reorganization of the healthcare system in Italy, with significant deferment of the treatment of urology patients. We aimed to assess the impact of deferred treatment during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the need for blood transfusions in 3 Italian urology...

...Julia Mühlbauer; Johannes de Gilde; Michael Mueller-Steinhardt; Stefan Porubsky; Margarete Walach; Philipp Nuhn; Harald Klüter; Nina Wagener; Maximilian C. Kriegmair Introduction: The aim was to evaluate the impact of perioperative blood transfusions (PBTs) on renal function after surgery for renal...

... 192 patients, who underwent RALP between June 2011 and July 2014 and received FloSeal 5 ml after traditional hemostatic methods. We compared the blood transfusion rate, the differences between immediate postoperative hemoglobin (Hb) and mean postoperative day 1 (POD1) Hb levels, difference between...

... hematocrit of 40% or less (45 vs. 13%, p = 0.014). Conclusions: Anatomical RRP is still associated with appreciable operative blood loss. Owing to the high preoperative hematocrit values, the allogeneic blood transfusion rate is low and the transfusion requirement of the majority of patients is limited...