Leukocyte depletion filtering of cell-salvaged blood obtained from cesarean section significantly reduces particulate contaminants to a concentration equivalent to maternal venous blood.
In this prospective cohort study, cell salvage and preoperative autologous donation were compared with respect to their ability to avoid allogeneic transfusion. There was a suggestion that cell salvage might offer better allogeneic transfusion avoidance.
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