Risks of Restrictive Versus Liberal Red Blood Cell Transfusion Strategies in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease: An Updated Meta-Analysis

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (W.N.A.).
• ² Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center (V.J.F., J.S., R.L.D., P.Q.E., M.A.S., C.N.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
• ³ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA (I.C.-P.).
• ⁴ Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (J.W.).
• ⁵ NIH Library, Office of Research Services, Office of the Director (T.C.S.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
• ⁶ National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (R.L.D., M.A.S., C.N.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
• ⁷ Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Center (H.G.K.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.