Abstract:Thirty-eight patients with jaw deformity were operated on in our hospital from January to October in1993. Thirty-five of them (male: 13, female: 22, mean age: 21.5) had received autotransfusion.A total of400ml of blood from each patient was collected into a " quadruple-bag ACD-MAP" 5 weeks before surgery, and the red-cells and the plasma were separated.In this study, the relation between the recovery of anemia after400ml-phlebotomy and the administration of sodium ferrous citrate were investigated.After the administration of sodium ferrous citrate, the amemic levels of hemoglobin, serum iron and serum ferritin after400ml phlebotomy recovered within5weeks.Decrease of the levels of serum iron and serum ferritin were prevented.In patients with controlled serum ferritin levels under30ng/ml, increase of the levels of controlled serum ferritin was confirmed before phlebotomy by the administration of the sodium ferrous citrate.
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