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Mechanisms of pulmonary dysfunction after on-pump and off-pump cardiac surgery: a prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary dysfunction following cardiac surgery is believed to be caused, at least in part, by a lung vascular injury and/or atelectasis following cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) perfusion and collapse of non-ventilated lungs. METHODS: To test this hypothesis, we studied the postoperative p...

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Autores principales: Groeneveld, AB Johan, Jansen, Evert K, Verheij, Joanne
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17300720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-2-11