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Preoperative Exchange Transfusion for Sickle Cell Disease Patients Undergoing Open‐Heart Surgery: An Exception to the Rule
Author(s) -
Adhikari Ravindra K,
Maddali Madan M.,
Zacharias Sunny
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01102.x
Subject(s) - medicine , exchange transfusion , disease , surgery , pediatrics
Preoperative exchange transfusion is a routine practice in patients with sickle cell disease having elevated sickle cell hemoglobin levels (>40%) undergoing open‐heart surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass. A new approach toward acceptance and management of sickle cell disease patients with high sickle cell hemoglobin levels for open‐heart surgery without preoperative exchange transfusion of blood is presented. (J Card Surg 2010;25:691‐693)