Coronary artery bypass, grafting in a dialysis-dependent Jehovah's Witness

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-183

  Williams, Mallory ^a   Blocksom, Jason M ^a   Baciewicz Jr , Frank A ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 3990 John R Harper Prof Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Cardiac surgical procedures; Christianity; Coronary artery bypass; Hemoglobins; Kidney failure, chronic; Religion and medicine; Renal dialysis

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERROUS SULFATE; HEMOGLOBIN; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIALYSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; ON PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 2942618216     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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