Transfusion-related acute lung injury in cardiac surgery

Selen Öztürk,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.8535

Selen Öztürk¹, İbrahim Öztürk²

¹Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
²Departments of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.8535

Transfusion of blood and blood products is an important issue which may be cause of increased morbidity and mortality due to reduced pulmonary function. Although blood transfusion-related acute lung injury is uncommon, it may lead to serious pulmonary morbidity. As a special subgroup of patients, cardiac surgery constitutes a complex medical condition due to three etiological factors of acute lung injury: cardiopulmonary bypass, mechanical ventilation and blood transfusion. In this article, we reviewed transfusion-related acute lung injury in cardiac surgery taking the Berlin definition into consideration.

Keywords : Acute lung injury; cardiac surgery; transfusion

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