Relationship between conventional coagulation tests and bleeding for 600 consecutive liver transplantations

Luc Massicotte1, André Y Denault, Lynda Thibeault

  • 11 Department of Anesthesiology Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Hôpital St-Luc., Montreal QC, Canada 2 Epidemiology Department Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal QC, Canada 3 Department of Anesthesiology University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 4 Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal Montreal QC, Canada 5 Hepatopancreatobilliary Surgery Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal QC, Canada.

Transplantation
|July 16, 2014
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