Coronary artery bypass grafting in a patient with active idiopathic cryoglobulinemia: revisiting the issue
Background: Cryoglobulinemia is a cold-reactive autoimmune disease. It is of distinctive importance in cardiac surgery because of the use of hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Cryoglobulins, which activate at variable levels of hypothermia, can cause precipitation during surgery leading to po...
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Greater Baltimore Medical Center
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives |
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| Online Access: | http://www.jchimp.net/index.php/jchimp/article/view/30351/pdf_128 |