Bloodless third complex heart operation in a Jehovah's Witness patient with extremely low preoperative haemoglobin level

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 692-693

  Pasic, Miralem ^a   D'Ancona, Giuseppe ^a   Unbehaun, Axel ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Complex heart surgery; Heart valve disease; Jehovah's Witness

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERROUS GLYCINATE CHELATE; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON CHELATE; NICOTINAMIDE; NORADRENALIN; POLYPROPYLENE; RIBOFLAVIN; THIAMINE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN;

ADULT; AORTA PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOODLESS CARE; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CIRRHOSIS; HEART DISEASE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; LEG EDEMA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PARAPROSTHETIC LEAKAGE; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ANEMIA, MACROCYTIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOODLESS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863432711     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivr092     Document Type: Article

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