Reoperative cardiac surgery in Jehovah's witness patients with patent internal thoracic artery grafts: How far can we push the envelope?

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-33

  Dandolu, B Reddy ^a   Parmet, John ^a   Isidro, Alice ^a   Yarnall, Charles ^a   Haber, Howard L ^a   Ford, Patricia ^a   Bridges, Charles R ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Farm Journal Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPLEGIA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART PROTECTION; HEART SURGERY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; MALE; MORBIDITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; REOPERATION; THORACIC SURGERY; TRANSPLANTS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 39449086115     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20071144     Document Type: Article

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