Predictors of homologous blood transfusion for patients undergoing open heart surgery

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-21

  Litmathe, J ^a   Boeken, U ^a   Feindt, P ^a   Gams, E ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood preservation; Bypass surgery; Cardiac surgery

Indexed keywords

APROTININ; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0038625413     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-37281     Document Type: Article

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