Five-minute parameter of thromboelastometry is sufficient to detect thrombocytopenia and hypofibrinogenaemia in patients undergoing liver transplantation

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 290-297

  Song, J G ^a   Jeong, S M ^a   Jun, I G ^a   Lee, H M ^a   Hwang, G S ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

blood coagulation; liver transplantation; thromboelastometry

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; BLOOD CLOTTING PARAMETERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCOAGULABILITY; HYPOFIBRINOGENEMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATION THROMBOELASTOMETRY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY;

BLOOD COAGULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; THROMBOELASTOMETRY;

AFIBRINOGENEMIA; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892777228     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aet325     Document Type: Article

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