“…The safety of autologous blood predeposit is supported by several recent studies in different surgical areas: orthopedic [6][7][8][9][10][11][12], plastic [13][14][15][16][17], gynecologic [11,18,19], vascular [10,20], urologic [2l, 22], cardiac [23], and miscellaneous [24][25][26]. The problem of dealing with potentially "high-risk" patients was studied by Mann et al [24], who found no dangerous complications associated with predonation in a group of 342 patients including subjects with severe heart disease, elderly patients, children, and pregnant women.…”