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Impact of aprotinin and renal function on mortality: a retrospective single center analysis

BACKGROUND: An estimated up to 7% of high-risk cardiac surgery patients return to the operating room for bleeding. Aprotinin was used extensively as an antifibrinolytic agent in cardiac surgery patients for over 15 years and it showed efficacy in reducing bleeding. Aprotinin was removed from the mar...

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Autores principales: Schloss, Brian, Gulati, Parul, Yu, Lianbo, Abdel-Rasoul, Mahmoud, O'Brien, William, Von Visger, Jon, Awad, Hamdy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21878108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-103