Increased risk of transmission of hepatitis c in open heart surgery compared with vascular and pulmonary surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1425-1431

  Olsen, Karina ^a   Dahl, Per Erling ^a   Paulssen, Eyvind J ^a   Husebekk, Anne ^a,b   Widell, Anders ^c   Busund, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; VIRUS RNA; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LUNG SURGERY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NONHUMAN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOCYTE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEART SURGERY; HEPACIVIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; TRANSMISSION; VASCULAR SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RISK FACTORS; RNA, VIRAL; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 78049284399     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.06.053     Document Type: Article

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