Do preoperative anemia and polycythemia affect clinical outcome in patients undergoing major surgery?
Aryeh Shander and Lawrence Tim Goodnough*
Correspondence *Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Room H–1402, 300 Pasteur Drive, MC 5626, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Email lgoodnough@stanfordmed.org
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Healthy adults tolerate preoperative anemia well and have low postoperative mortality.1 Little is known, however, about how elderly patients tolerate, or compensate for, preoperative anemia.
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