Correlation Between Blood Transfusion and Blood Glucose Levels in Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation.

•Blood transfusions of banked blood products are blamed as one of the causes of hyperglycemia because they are stored in anticoagulant citrate-phosphate-dextrose-adenine (CPDA-1) solution, which contains 432 mg/dL dextrose.•The results of our comparison of a no blood transfusion group and a blood transfusion group revealed that blood transfusions, even massive, did not affect the changes in serum glucose during similar living donor liver transplantation conditions.•When banked blood products are used to replace ongoing blood loss, the dextrose contained in CPDA-1 seems to have no effect on changes in the blood glucose levels of the recipients.