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To the Editor: We learned from an online publication of the Network for Advancement of Transfusion Alternatives¹ that Goodnough and colleagues cited data from the work of our group² in a 1999 review article in the Journal to support the hypothesis that there is no "meaningful difference in outcomes between autologous blood donation and acute normovolemic hemodilution" with regard to the reduction of homologous transfusion requirements.³ The data they present, however, are not the data we reported, nor is the conclusion they draw from these data ours.

We studied the efficiency of autologous transfusion methods in patients undergoing total hip . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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