Wednesday 13 August 2014

Clotting Drug Linked to Fewer Blood Transfusions

Tranexamic acid, the clotting drug was found to reduce blood loss during or shortly after major joint surgery, says study. In the USA, over 1 million hip and knee replacements are performed each year. InEngland and Wales the figure is about 180,000. So a team of US researchers, led by Dr Stavros Memtsoudis at Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Dr Jashvant Poeran at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, both in New York, set ...

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