Thromboelastographic changes in liver and pancreatic cancer surgery: Hypercoagulability, hypocoagulability or normocoagulability?

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 608-616

  De Pietri, Lesley ^a   Montalti, Roberto ^a   Begliomini, Bruno ^a   Scaglioni, Giulia ^a   Marconi, Giorgia ^a   Reggiani, Alexia ^a   Di Benedetto, Fabrizio ^a   Aiello, Stefano ^a   Pasetto, Alberto ^a   Rompianesi, Gianluca ^a   Gerunda, Giorgio E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominal surgery; Blood coagulation; Haemostatic response; Surgery; Thromboelastography

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; FIBRINOGEN; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PROTHROMBIN; THROMBOPLASTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPOCOAGULABILITY; LIVER CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTITHROMBIN III; BLOOD COAGULATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PLATELET COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOPHILIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953733332     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e328334df31     Document Type: Article

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