J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:732-733
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
I am afraid of using aprotinin because they say so?
Jeffrey H. Shuhaiber, MD
Department of Surgery, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, 614-G Laflin, Chicago, IL 60612
(Email: jeffrey01@mac.com).
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To the Editor:
Cardiothoracic surgeons have become more aware of the worse outcomes associated with aprotinin after cardiac surgery, as discussed in the article by Mangano and colleagues1
published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It remains an observational study that, as the authors point out, is in need of randomized studies. The main concern of the authors that has not been addressed is the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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