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Lead
Massachusetts General Hospital
Patients will be randomized into one of the three groups:
I. Blood transfusion stored for less than 10 days II. Blood transfusion stored for more than 30 days III. Blood transfusion stored for more than 30 days days plus inhalation of Nitric Oxide at 80 part per million for an hour during blood transfusion.
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
1. Provide written informed consent
2. Elective cardiac or aortic surgery
3. One or more blood transfusions scheduled for clinical reasons
4. Presence of an arterial catheter and pulmonary arterial catheter
You may not be if
1. Emergent cardiac surgery.
2. Patients requiring irradiated or washed blood transfusions.
Clareo Health | Use of Inhaled Nitric Oxide to Prevent Pulmonary Hypertension Associated to Stored Blood Transfusion
