Concepedia

Pre-Operative Oral Iron Supplementation Reduces Blood Transfusion in Colorectal Surgery – A Prospective, Randomised, Controlled Trial

PG Lidder, Grant Sanders, E Whitehead, WJ Douie, Neil Mellor, SJ Lewis, K B Hosie

Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2007 · 116 citations · 8 references

DOIFull text

Open access

Abstract

Oral ferrous sulphate given pre-operatively in patients undergoing colorectal surgery offers a simple, inexpensive method of reducing blood transfusions.

References

8

Effects of the combination of blood transfusion and postoperative infectious complications on prognosis after surgery for colorectal cancer

British journal of surgery · 2000 · 180 citations · Full text

Allogeneic blood transfusion, hospital charges, and length of hospitalization: a study of 487 consecutive patients undergoing colorectal cancer resection.

Eleftherios C. Vamvakas, J.H. Carven · PubMed · 1998 · 113 citations

Perioperative blood transfusions reduce long-term survival following surgery for colorectal cancer

Tom‐Harald Edna, T Bjerkeset · Diseases of the Colon & Rectum · 1998 · 89 citations

Predictive factors for perioperative blood transfusions in rectal resection for cancer: A multivariate analysis of a group of 212 patients

Stéphane Benoist, Yves Panís, Virginie Pannegeon et al. · Surgery · 2001 · 75 citations

, , +9

Preoperative Anemia in Colon Cancer: Assessment of Risk Factors

James R. Dunne, Christopher J. Gannon, Tiffany M. Osborn et al. · The American Surgeon · 2002 · 68 citations

, , +15