• Kwok-Wai Cheng, Chao-Long Chen, Yu-Fan Cheng, Chia-Chih Tseng, Chih-Hsien Wang, Yaw-Sen Chen, Chih-Chi Wang, Tung-Liang Huang, Hock-Liew Eng, King-Wah Chiu, Shih-Hor Wang, Chih-Che Lin, Tsan-Shiun Lin, Yueh-Wei Liu, and Bruno Jawan.
• Department of Anesthesiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Ta-Pei Road 123, Niao Shung Hsiang, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China.
• World J Gastroentero. 2005 May 14; 11 (18): 2789-91.

AimHyperglycemia commonly seen in liver transplantation (LT) has often been attributed to the dextrose in the storage solution of blood transfusion products. The purpose of the study is to compare the changes of the blood glucose levels in transfused and non-transfused patients during LT.MethodsA retrospective study on 60 biliary pediatric patients and 16 adult patients undergoing LT was carried out. Transfused pediatric patients were included in Group I (GI), those not transfused in Group II (GII). Twelve adult patients were not given transfusion and assigned to Group III (GIII); whereas, four adult patients who received massive transfusion were assigned to Group IV (GIV). The blood glucose levels, volume of blood transfused, and the volume of crystalloid infused were recorded, compared and analyzed.ResultsResults showed that the changes in blood glucose levels during LT for both non-transfused and minimally transfused pediatric groups and non-transfused and massively-transfused adult groups were almost the same.ConclusionWe conclude that blood transfusion does not cause significant changes in the blood glucose levels in this study.

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