Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2880182 | The Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 2009 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Transfusion is associated with many measures of postoperative pulmonary morbidity. Yet the Pao2/Fio2 ratio as important criterion of TRALI is unrelated to transfusion. Thus, due to the nature of cardiac surgery, application of consensus guided diagnosis of TRALI is problematic.
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Authors
Colleen MD, MS, Liang PhD, Priscilla MD, Tomislav MD, Lars MD, PhD, Eugene H. MD,