The impact of hepatitis C status on postoperative outcome

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 550-554

  Cheung, Ramsey C ^a   Hsieh, Frank ^a   Wang, Yajie ^a   Pollard, John B ^a  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMATOCRIT; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

EID: 0041346096     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000068984.22840.FE     Document Type: Article

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