Publications by authors named "Georg Stelzig"

Background: Pre-operative autologous blood donation is used to reduce the need of allogeneic blood in patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery operations, but it is not clear what impact the blood donation has on the post-operative course of these patients.

Methods: We studied the post-operative course of 210 patients who pre-donated autologous blood before their coronary bypass operation (donors) and of 67 patients who were eligible to pre-donate but did not (controls).

Results: The clinical variables and the technical operative parameters of the patients in the two groups were similar.

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