TABLE 1.

Main patient characteristics.

Group	Pat ID	Age	Gender	Diagnosis	Operation	POD	PRBC storage duration (d)	PRBCs transfused during surgery (n)	Total PRBCs at ICU (n)
Aorta	34	65	m	Peripheral arterial vascular disease	Axillofemoral bypass	1	11	2	2
	36	77	m	Abdominal aortic aneurysm	Bifemoral prothesis	2	24	0	2
	48	82	f	Abdominal aortic aneurysm	Bi-iliacal prothesis	1	17	3	4
	81	81	m	Abdominal aortic aneurysm	Aortic replacement	2	29	1	4
LuTx	10	65	m	Fibrosis	LuTx	3	25	5	34
	12	32	f	Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension	LuTx	1	23	9	6
	14	59	f	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	LuTx	3	36	2	1
	15	38	m	Cystic fibrosis, transplant dysfunction	Re-LuTx	3	31	7	2
	25	25	f	Cystic fibrosis	LuTx	3	29	10	1
	49	48	m	Cystic fibrosis, transplant dysfunction	Re-LuTx	8	18	22	5
	64	37	m	Fibrosis	LuTx	6	23	17	5
	73	33	m	Cystic fibrosis	LuTx	3	20	5	2
Comparison	17	36	m	Abdominal wall seroma	Multiple	5	22	7	6
	20	84	m	Neoplasma vesicae	Cystectomy	3	25	0	1
	43	56	m	Pericardial effusion	Pericardial drainage	4	33	0	17
	46	77	m	Status post subhepatic hematoma	Wound management	1	29	0	6
	61	59	m	Thymoma	Thymectomy	44	18	13	20
	68	59	m	Renal cell carcinoma	Partial nephrectomy	1	17	3	5
	79	72	f	Stomach perforation	Gastrectomy	1	13	1	1
	80	62	m	Neoplasma vesicae	Cystectomy	1	25	0	2
	87	59	m	Peripheral arterial vascular disease	Thrombectomy	2	20	0	3

Pat ID, patient identification number; PRBC, packed red blood cell; POD, postoperative day at time point of transfusion; d, days; ICU, intensive care unit; LuTx, bilateral lung transplantation; Re-LuTx; repeated bilateral lung transplantation; m, male; f, female.