Preoperative anemia increases mortality and postoperative morbidity after cardiac surgery

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Miceli, Antonio ^a,b   Romeo, Francesco ^c   Glauber, Mattia ^b   de Siena, Paolo M ^a   Caputo, Massimo ^a,d   Angelini, Gianni D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Cardiac surgery; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ANEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ANEMIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84906730655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-9-137     Document Type: Article

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