Storage time of intraoperative transfused allogeneic red blood cells is not associated with new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation in cardiac surgery

• Jiwei Gu,

  Current address: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

  Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Centre of General Hospital, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, PR China, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, Atrial Fibrillation Study Group, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

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• Regitze Kuhr Skals,

  Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

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• Christian Torp-Pedersen,

  Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

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• Søren Lundbye-Christensen,

  Affiliations Atrial Fibrillation Study Group, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, Unit of Clinical Biostatistics, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

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• Carl-Johan Jakobsen,

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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• John Bæch,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

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• Mikkel Steen Petersen,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Jan Jesper Andreasen

  * E-mail: jja@rn.dk

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, Atrial Fibrillation Study Group, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

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