Simple preoperative management for cold agglutinins before cardiac surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Kanemitsu, Shinji ^a   Onoda, Koji ^a   Yamamoto, Kiyohito ^a   Shimpo, Hideto ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD AGGLUTININ; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOPLEGIA; CASE REPORT; CORONARY SINUS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; COMPLICATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77958002963     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.06.030     Document Type: Article

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