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Warm heart surgery in patients with cold autoimmune disorders
1Surgical Cardiovascular Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
Continuous warm antegrade delivery of cardioplegia while maintaining systemic normothermia is a new method of performing coronary artery bypass grafting. It can be used to avoid the detrimental effects of hypothermia in patients with cold autoimmune disease.