ABSTRACT
Objective:To study the application and clinical significance of autotransfusion hemodilution inlaryngectomy. Method:Autotransfusion hemodilution was adopted in 30 patients with Ⅲ or Ⅳ stage laryngealcarcinoma during operation as the experimental group, and the blood transfusion only was adopted in the patientswith excessively blood loss. The other 30 patients with the same stages of disease and the same kinds ofoperation were performed as the control group, without autotransfusion hemodilution and the blood transfusionwas adopted if necessary. Result: Blood transfusion was necessary to be performed only in 8 patients of theexperimental group, on the contrary,it was necessary in 19 of 30 patients of the control group (P＜0.01).There were no complications during the operations , and the postoperative complications were no significance (P＞0. 05) between two groups. Conclusion:The application of autotransfusion hemodilution may be of help to aplenty of patients with laryngeal carcinoma in advanced stage to keep off the blood transfusion duringlaryngectomy.