Morbidity of bleeding after cardiac surgery: Is it blood transfusion, reoperation for bleeding, or both?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1780-1790

  Vivacqua, Alessandro ^a   Koch, Colleen G ^a   Yousuf, Arshad M ^a   Nowicki, Edward R ^a   Houghtaling, Penny L ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Sabik III, Joseph F ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79957742227     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.03.105     Document Type: Article

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