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Iron transfusion before heart surgery reduces complications and boosts recovery, clinical trial finds
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Giving intravenous iron to patients with anemia before heart surgery reduces the need for a red blood cell transfusion, finds a clinical trial published by The BMJ today. Intravenous iron also saved approximately 44 units of blood products for every 100 patients treated.
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