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Bloodless surgery of acute type A aortic dissection in a Jehovah's Witness patient
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...904&query_hl=1
Bloodless surgery of acute type A aortic dissection in a Jehovah's Witness patient.
Pasic M, Ruisz W, Koster A, Hetzer R.
Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany. pasic@dhzb.de
We report successful surgery for acute type A aortic dissection in a Jehovah's Witness patient without the use of any transfusion of allogeneic blood or blood products. We combined the normothermic cross-clamping technique with a blood conservation strategy.
PMID: 16181904 [PubMed - in process]
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