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J H Eickhoff

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Effect of perioperative blood transfusion on recurrence and death after mastectomy for breast cancer.

A recent report suggested that perioperative blood transfusion doubles the recurrence rate of breast cancer after mastectomy. In the present retrospective study the effect of transfusion on cancer recurrence and death after mastectomy was investigated in 96 women, 27 with and 69 without blood transfusion. The overall survival rates, the breast-cancer-specific survival and the recurrence-free survival rates were similar in the two groups. The study thus does not support the hypothesis that perioperative blood transfusion promotes recurrence of breast cancer.

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Incidence of diagnosis, operation and death from abdominal aortic aneurysms in Danish hospitals: results from a nation-wide survey, 1977-1990.

OBJECTIVE: To study the incidence of various hospital manifestations of abdominal aortic aneurysms. DESIGN: Retrospective review of a database covering all admissions to Danish hospitals. SUBJECTS: All patients admitted to Danish hospitals during the period 1977 to 1990. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Number, and age and sex specific incidence rates of hospital admission for, operation for, or death from abdominal aortic aneurysm. RESULTS: The number of admissions during which an abdominal aortic aneurysm was diagnosed increased fourfold from 362 in 1977 to 1317 in 1990, and the number of admissions, during which an abdominal aortic aneurysm was operated on, increased by a factor of nearly five from 66 to 307. A quarter of the operations were done for ruptured aneurysm. The number of deaths in hospital increased from 119 in 1978 to about 200 towards the end of the period, but during the last three years it decreased from 236 to 177. CONCLUSION: Although the study records abdominal aortic aneurysm in hospital only, the data may indicate that the incidence is increasing. The reduction in mortality towards the end of the period may indicate that vascular surgery even on a national scale is effective in reducing mortality from aortic aneurysm.

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