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Clinical Trial
. 2015 Nov;55(11):2768-70.
doi: 10.1111/trf.13276.

Effect of storage-aged red blood cell transfusions on endothelial function in healthy subjects

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Effect of storage-aged red blood cell transfusions on endothelial function in healthy subjects

Salim S Hayek et al. Transfusion. 2015 Nov.
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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None of the authors have conflicts of interests to disclose.

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Flow-Mediated Dilation during Transfusion of Storage-Aged and Fresh Blood Units. pRBCs: packed red blood cells. Flow-mediated dilation (%) is adjusted for baseline brachial artery diameter using allometric scaling. P-value is for the comparison between fresh pRBC and storage-aged pRBC transfusions.

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