Preoperative immunoglobulin treatment in patients with Werlhof's disease undergoing cardiac operation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-64

  Christiansen, Stefan ^b   Schmid, Christof ^a   Redmann, Klaus ^a   Jahn, Ulli R ^a   Stypmann, Jörg ^a   Scheld, Hans H ^a   Hammel, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0033971673     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)01158-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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