Are we missing something? What really is the post cardiotomy syndrome?

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 206-207

  Ritter, George ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEART ANTIBODY; TROPONIN T;

ANGIOPLASTY; BYPASS SURGERY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MYXOMA; PERICARDIOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEDIMENTATION RATE; VIRUS INFECTION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTPERICARDIOTOMY SYNDROME;

EID: 33645104990     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000204555.55719.25     Document Type: Editorial

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