ArticleCritical care medicine2018
Contemporary Risk Factors and Outcomes of Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload.
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- Estimating the incidence of transfusion-associated circulatory overload using active surveillance: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Transfusion · 2025Pooled it
- A physiology-based trigger score to guide perioperative transfusion of allogeneic red blood cells: A multicentre randomised controlled trial.Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) · 2022Trial
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- A Web-Based Registry Framework Linking Transfusion Practice to Long-Term Patient Outcomes: Design and Single-Center Feasibility Study.Journal of medical systems · 2026Article
- Coagulation Abnormalities in Liver Cirrhosis: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
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- Transfusion-related lung complications are uncommon in non-ventilated liver failure patients undergoing low-volume plasma exchange.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Euvolemic automated transfusion to treat severe anemia in sickle cell disease patients at risk of circulatory overload.Transfusion · 2024Article
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- The effect of plasma transfusion in an experimental two-hit animal model of transfusion-associated circulatory overload with heart failure.Blood transfusion = Trasfusione del sangue · 2023Article
- Multi-center Retrospective Study of Factors Affecting Perioperative Transfusion of Packed Red Blood Cells for Pelvic Fracture Patients.Orthopaedic surgery · 2022Article
- Oncology Patients Who Develop Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload: An Observational Study.Laboratory medicine · 2022Observational
- Patterns and determinants of blood transfusion in intensive care in Sweden between 2010 and 2018: A nationwide, retrospective cohort study.Transfusion · 2022Article
- Management and Clinical Outcome of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome in Pediatric Oncologic/Hematologic Diseases: A PRES Subgroup Analysis With a Large Sample Size.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Article
- Impact of Perioperative Massive Transfusion on Long Term Outcomes of Liver Transplantation: a Retrospective Cohort Study.International journal of medical sciences · 2021Article
- Iatrogenic Decompensated Heart Failure.Current heart failure reports · 2020Review
- Volume incompliance and transfusion are essential for transfusion-associated circulatory overload: a novel animal model.Transfusion · 2019Article
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- TACO and TRALI: biology, risk factors, and prevention strategies.Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program · 2018Review
- The Pathogenic Involvement of Neutrophils in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2018Review
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Abstract
objectivesTransfusion-associated circulatory overload is characterized by hydrostatic pulmonary edema following blood transfusion. Restrictive transfusion practice may affect the occurrence and severity of transfusion-associated circulatory overload in critically ill patients. We sought to examine contemporary risk factors and outcomes for transfusion-associated circulatory overload.
designCase-control study.
settingFour tertiary care hospitals. PATIENTS: We prospectively enrolled 200 patients with transfusion-associated circulatory overload identified by active surveillance and 405 controls matched by transfusion intensity.
interventionsNone. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsAmong 20,845 transfused patients who received 128,263 blood components from May 2015 until July 2016, transfusion-associated circulatory overload incidence was one case per 100 transfused patients. In addition to cardiovascular comorbidities, multivariable analysis identified the following independent predictors of transfusion-associated circulatory overload: acute kidney injury, emergency surgery, pretransfusion diuretic use, and plasma transfusion-the latter especially in females. Compared with matched controls, transfusion-associated circulatory overload cases were more likely to require mechanical ventilation (71% vs 49%; p < 0.001), experienced longer intensive care and hospital lengths of stay following transfusion, and had higher mortality (21% vs 11%; p = 0.02) even after adjustment for other potentially confounding variables.
conclusionsDespite restrictive transfusion practice, transfusion-associated circulatory overload remains a frequent complication of transfusion and is an independent risk factor for in-hospital morbidity and mortality. In addition to cardiovascular and renal risk factors, plasma transfusion was associated with transfusion-associated circulatory overload after controlling for other covariates. Additional research is needed to examine the benefit of reduced erythrocyte or plasma exposure in patients at high risk for transfusion-associated circulatory overload.
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