Role of hemodilutional anemia and transfusion during cardiopulmonary bypass in renal injury after coronary revascularization: Implications on operative outcome*

Habib, Robert; Zacharias, Anoar; A. Schwann, Thomas; J. Riordan, Christopher; Engoren, Milo; J. Durham, Samuel; Shah, Aamir

doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000171531.06133.b0

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Role of hemodilutional anemia and transfusion during cardiopulmonary bypass in renal injury after coronary revascularization: Implications on operative outcome*

Published in Critical Care Medicine • Aug 1, 2005

Authors:

Robert Habib

Anoar Zacharias

Thomas A. Schwann

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Acute renal injury and failure (ARF) after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has been linked to low on-pump hematocrit (hematocrit). We aimed to 1) elucidate if and how this relation is modulated by the duration of CPB (TCPB) and on-pump packed red blood cell transfusions and 2) to quantify th...

Subject

Medicine

Hematocrit

Cardiopulmonary bypass

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