Risk factors for peripartum blood transfusion in South Africa: a case-control study.

CONCLUSION: Major risk factors of peripartum transfusion in South Africa, namely, prenatal anemia and access to prenatal care, may be amenable to intervention. HIV infection and moderately low PLT count are novel risk factors that merit further investigation.
PMID: 29989178 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Transfusion - July 10, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Bloch EM, Ingram C, Hull J, Fawcus S, Anthony J, Green-Thompson R, Crookes RL, Ngcobo S, V Creel D, Courtney L, Bellairs GRM, Murphy EL, South Africa Program of the NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-III (REDS-III) Tags: Transfusion Source Type: research