"QUOTES"

Women and Bloodless Surgery

"Women die and get infections more often than men after heart surgery because they tend to receive more blood transfusions."
News-Medical.net

"The results of this study may warrant a fresh look at the use of blood for all women undergoing obstetric and gynecological operations."
Medical Hotline, April/May 1983

"Women have a greater post-bypass surgery mortality risk than men."
Mary A.M. Rogers, Ph.D.

"The odds that a woman would receive blood were more than 21 times that of men. Women were also more likely to be infected, have breathing problems, spend more time in intensive care and die in the hospital."
Nicholas Bakalar in The New York Times -  Based on a Study by The Journal of Women’s Health

"Women were 44.6 percent more likely to receive a blood transfusion than the men. Of the 150 women studied, 149 (99 percent) received donor blood during their hospitalization, compared to 77 percent of the men."
Univerisity of Rochester

"Women die and get infections more often than men after heart surgery because theytend to receive more blood transfusions, which boost the risks of bad outcomes, according to a study published in the December Journal of Women’s Health."
University of Rochester

"Women were more likely to die in the hospital (6.7 percent) than men (1.3 percent), and 11 percent of the women in the study developed pulmonary dysfunction after surgery, compared with 3.9 percent of the men."
University of Rochester

Note: these three quotes are from one single study

"Women are more likely to receive blood during heart bypass operations, which are performed on more than 465,000 Americans each year."
Science Daily

"Based on data from 9,218 Michigan bypass patients … women are 3.4 times as likely as men to receive blood."
Science Daily

"Women bypass patients are more likely than men to die in the first few months after surgery."
Science Daily

Note: these three quotes are from one single study

"J.R. Cerhan, of the Mayo Clinic, and colleagues from the Universities of Iowa, South Carolina, and Minnesota examined data from almost 38,000 middle-age or elderly women from Iowa to test the suggested  between allogeneic blood transfusion - receiving blood from a genetically mismatched donor - and hematologic malignancy. They found a strong association between allogeneic blood transfusions and several grades and types of lymphoma and leukemia."
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention.

"One reason for the greater mortality in women after cardiac surgery may be the increased likelihood of receiving nonleukoreduced allogeneic RBCs and platelets. Transfusion increased the risk of infection; infection, then, increased the likelihood of pulmonary dysfunction and mortality."
Mary A.M. Rogers, Neil Blumberg, Joanna M. Heal, George L. Hicks, Jr.. Journal of Women's Health. December 2007, 16(10): 1412-1420. doi:10.1089/jwh.2007.0397.

"Exposure to 1 or 2 U of RBCs was associated with a 16% increased hazard of decreased survival after cardiac surgery."
Anesthesia-Analgesia, abstract/108/6/1741