Surgical Reexploration After Cardiac Operations: Why a Worse Outcome?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1557-1562

  Ranucci, Marco ^a   Bozzetti, Giuseppe ^a   Ditta, Antonio ^a   Cotza, Mauro ^a   Carboni, Giovanni ^a   Ballotta, Andrea ^a  

^a IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53849129940     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.07.114     Document Type: Article

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