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[Drepanocytosis in patients undergoing heart surgery. Anesthesiologic problems]
P Ceriana1, M Maurelli, F Pagani
1Servizio di Anestesia e Rianimazione 1a, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia.
Minerva Anestesiologica
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
The authors report their experience with the management of patients with sickle cell trait undergoing open heart surgery. They focus their attention mainly on those factors potentially able to precipitate episodes of sickling, i.e. hypoxia, hypothermia, vascular stasis and acidosis.