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Novel approach to bleeding in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with liver dysfunction
R G Stuklis1, D F O'Shaughnessy, S K Ohri
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Haematology, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK. rstuklis@yahoo.com
Abstract:
We describe two patients with significant liver dysfunction (Child--Pugh class B) who underwent cardiac surgery at our institution facilitated by the use of a prothrombin complex concentrate for the management of postoperative bleeding.