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- Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a serious and often fatal complication that can occur after blood transfusions, and it's the leading cause of transfusion-related deaths.
- Despite being increasingly recognized in the medical field, TRALI is still commonly overlooked due to a lack of awareness among healthcare professionals.
- The report presents two cases of TRALI following massive transfusion during cardiovascular surgery and emphasizes the challenges in diagnosing it amid other causes of hypoxia, highlighting the importance of proper management and differential diagnosis.
Article Abstract
Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a serious complication of transfusion of blood and blood components. TRALI is reported to be the most common cause of transfusion-associated death. TRALI has increasingly become known in the medical community. However, TRALI has been overlooked frequently because of poor knowledge of medical staffs. We report two cases of TRALI after massive transfusion due to massive bleeding during cardiovascular surgery. In the perioperative period, the diagnosis of TRALI is difficult to make because of coexistence of various factors leading to hypoxia. Thus, in this report, we discuss the management of these two cases focusing upon the differential diagnosis of TRALI.
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