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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;138:1454
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Pediatric cardiac surgery: Effect of a miniaturized bypass circuit in reducing homologous blood transfusion

Yves Dominique Durandy, MD

Intensive Care Unit, Institut Jacques Cattier, Massy, France

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

I read with great interest the excellent article by Koster and colleagues.1Go We have recently published our experience in treating 150 pediatric patients with a 120-mL prime volume miniaturized bypass circuit, vacuum-assisted venous drainage, and intermittent warm blood microplegia.2Go Our results, although less impressive than those of Koster and colleagues,1Go confirmed the efficiency of a small prime volume for reduction of allogeneic blood transfusion. With a nadir hemoglobin value of 8 g/dL during cardiopulmonary bypass, we demonstrated the good tolerance of hemodilution using 2 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2009 138: 1454-1455. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2009 137: 1565-1568. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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