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Open heart operation in a young child with spherocytosis
Y Kawahira1, H Kishimoto, M Iio
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Medical Center, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
Open heart operations on patients with hereditary spherocytosis have been reported rarely. Young children who have not yet undergone splenectomy have a high risk of intraoperative hemolysis because of the heart-lung machine and secondary renal failure. We report the case of a 15-month-old child with spherocytosis who underwent an open heart operation without serious complications as a result of careful and appropriate perioperative management.