Commentary: Perioperative transfusion-Awakening the immunologic beast, or alerting us to unrecognized frailty?

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 Jun;157(6):2478-2479. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.01.068. Epub 2019 Jan 26.

Authors

R Taylor Ripley¹, Shawn S Groth²

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Thoracic Surgery, The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of General Thoracic Surgery, The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.

PMID: 30853227
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.01.068

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Blood Transfusion
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung*
Frailty*
Humans
Lung Neoplasms*
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local