Pulmonary Valve Replacement in an Adult Jehovah's Witness with Tetralogy of Fallot

The refusal of Jehovah's Witnesses to use blood products can limit access to cardiac surgery, as patients may not be offered surgery for complex disease, especially revision surgery. We report a successful, complex adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) surgery with intraoperative and perioperat...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Talha, Safdar, Ayesha, Kaushal, Sunjay, Fisher, Stacy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7164725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32313778
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7337
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description The refusal of Jehovah's Witnesses to use blood products can limit access to cardiac surgery, as patients may not be offered surgery for complex disease, especially revision surgery. We report a successful, complex adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) surgery with intraoperative and perioperative optimization. We have tried to highlight through this case that complex ACHD surgeries can be performed in Jehovah's Witness patients with skilled perioperative and intraoperative management. The role of bovine hemoglobin in this population is being defined and was found helpful in this case.
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spelling pubmed-71647252020-04-20 Pulmonary Valve Replacement in an Adult Jehovah's Witness with Tetralogy of Fallot Ahmed, Talha Safdar, Ayesha Kaushal, Sunjay Fisher, Stacy Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery The refusal of Jehovah's Witnesses to use blood products can limit access to cardiac surgery, as patients may not be offered surgery for complex disease, especially revision surgery. We report a successful, complex adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) surgery with intraoperative and perioperative optimization. We have tried to highlight through this case that complex ACHD surgeries can be performed in Jehovah's Witness patients with skilled perioperative and intraoperative management. The role of bovine hemoglobin in this population is being defined and was found helpful in this case. Cureus 2020-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7164725/ /pubmed/32313778 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7337 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ahmed et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Pulmonary Valve Replacement in an Adult Jehovah's Witness with Tetralogy of Fallot
title_full Pulmonary Valve Replacement in an Adult Jehovah's Witness with Tetralogy of Fallot
title_fullStr Pulmonary Valve Replacement in an Adult Jehovah's Witness with Tetralogy of Fallot
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Valve Replacement in an Adult Jehovah's Witness with Tetralogy of Fallot
title_short Pulmonary Valve Replacement in an Adult Jehovah's Witness with Tetralogy of Fallot
title_sort pulmonary valve replacement in an adult jehovah's witness with tetralogy of fallot
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7164725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32313778
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7337
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