Blood consumption in total arterial coronary artery bypass grafting

Abstract Background Accumulating evidence consistently demonstrates that blood transfusion in cardiac surgery is related to decreased short- and long-term survival. We aimed to evaluate periprocedural blood loss and transfusion rates in elective, isolated total arterial coronary artery bypass grafti...

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Main Authors: Raphael Sven Werner, Christoph Lipps, Stefan Waldhans, Andreas Künzli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-020-1053-1