Bloodless third complex heart operation in a Jehovah's Witness patient with extremely low preoperative haemoglobin level | Zendy

M. Pasic | Zendy; Giuseppe D’Ancona | Zendy; Axel Unbehaun | Zendy; Roland Hetzer | Zendy

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Bloodless third complex heart operation in a Jehovah's Witness patient with extremely low preoperative haemoglobin level

Author(s) -

M. Pasic,

Giuseppe D’Ancona,

Axel Unbehaun,

Roland Hetzer

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546

H-Index - 56

eISSN - 1569-9293

pISSN - 1569-9285

DOI - 10.1093/icvts/ivr092

Subject(s) - medicine , blood transfusion , surgery , preoperative care , anesthesia

We report a successful third complex heart operation without the transfusion of any allogeneic blood or blood products in a female Jehovah's Witness patient who had pronounced preoperative anaemia with a haemoglobin value of 6.9 mg/dl. The report shows that such a procedure is possible without any transfusion of allogeneic blood or blood products in extreme conditions with a very low preoperative haemoglobin level.

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