Abstract:Objective To investigate the safety and efficacy of autologous blood transfusion in radical prostatectomy.Methods The clinical data of 103 patients with prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy in Tianjin First Central Hospital from June 2012 to June 2015 were retrospectively analyzed. Fifty-one patients who received intraoperative allogeneic blood transfusion were included in the allogeneic group, while another 52 patients who received autologous blood transfusion were included in the autologous group. The surgery-related indicators, immune function, red blood corpuscle (RBC) count, hemoglobin (HGB) content, hematocrit (HCT), complications, and 5-year recurrence rate and disease-free survival rate were compared between the two groups.Results Compared with the allogenic group, the operative duration and the length of hospital stay were shorter, intraoperative blood loss was less, and medical expenses were lower in the autologous group (P < 0.05). There was no difference in the immune indicators before the surgery (P >0.05). However, the frequency of CD4+ and CD8+ cells was higher, but the Th1/Th2 ratio was lower in the autologous group relative to the allogenic group after the surgery (P < 0.05). The preoperative RBC count, HGB content and HCT were not different between the two groups (P > 0.05), yet these indicators were higher in the allogenic group after the surgery (P < 0.05). In addition, no significant difference was found between the two groups in the overall incidence of complications and the 5-year overall recurrence rate and disease-free survival rate postoperatively (P > 0.05).Conclusions The application of autologous blood transfusion in radical prostatectomy can effectively shorten the operative duration, reduce intraoperative blood loss and improve certain routine blood biochemical indexes, but has no obvious influence on the incidence of complications, recurrence rate or disease-free survival rate.