Figure 5.
Rate of myocardial infarctions almost doubled in the restrictive arm of the FOCUS trial. In the FOCUS trial,26 the number of new onset MIs doubled in participants with stable CVD having hip surgery and receiving a restrictive instead of a liberal transfusion strategy. This finding was not reported in the original publication,26 but the data were provided by the authors upon request and first published 7 years later in our 2018 meta-analysis.25 Adapted from Cortés-Puch et al with permission.25

Rate of myocardial infarctions almost doubled in the restrictive arm of the FOCUS trial. In the FOCUS trial,26 the number of new onset MIs doubled in participants with stable CVD having hip surgery and receiving a restrictive instead of a liberal transfusion strategy. This finding was not reported in the original publication,26 but the data were provided by the authors upon request and first published 7 years later in our 2018 meta-analysis.25 Adapted from Cortés-Puch et al with permission.25 

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