In cirrhotic patients undergoing dental extraction, average costs were $700/patient with desmopressin versus $1,173/patient with transfusion.
In plain wordsIn cirrhotic patients undergoing tooth extraction, desmopressin cost $700/patient versus $1,173/patient for transfusion.
- Peptide
- Desmopressin
- Outcome
- DecreaseTreatment-associated costs
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Blood transfusion
- Outcome group
- Treatment Costs · Whole body
- Studied dose
- 300 microg · intranasalAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Treatment-associated average cost
- 700 $/patient
- intranasal desmopressin
- Treatment-associated average cost
- 1173 $/patient
- blood transfusion
Source sentences
Treatment associated average costs were lower for desmopressin ($700/patient) compared with transfusion ($1,173/patient).
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Cirrhotic patients with platelet counts of 30,000 to 50,000/microL and/or international normalized ratio (INR) 2.0 to 3.0 were enrolled in a prospective, controlled, randomized clinical trial.
Blood transfusion (fresh frozen plasma 10 mL/kg and/or 1 unit of single donor platelets, respectively) or intranasal desmopressin (300 microg) were given before dental extraction.