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Aortocoronary bypass surgery with normothermia in a patient with severe cold urticaria
T Malm1, L Juhlin, G Michaëlsson
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
Patients with cold urticaria can after exposure to cold air or infusions react with hypotension and cardiovascular collapse. We here report on a patient having a severe cold urticaria who because of angina required myocardial revascularization: She was successfully operated in normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass with cardioplegia.