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Erythropoietin To Prevent Blood Transfusion in Patients Having Total Hip Replacement Surgery
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What is the problem and what is known about it so far?
Patients can lose enough blood during hip replacement surgery to require blood transfusions. Transfusions of blood from other people always carry a small risk for infection or transfusion reactions. Transfusion of blood donated by the patient before surgery (predonation) avoids many of these …
