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- Title
Recombinant factor VIIa for intractable blood loss after cardiac surgery: a propensity score-matched case-control analysis.
- Authors
Karkouti, Keyvan; Beattie, W Scott; Wijeysundera, D N; Yau, Terrence M; McCluskey, Stuart A; Ghannam, Mohammed; Sutton, David; van Rensburg, Adriaan; Karski, Jacek
- Abstract
Cardiac surgery is occasionally complicated by massive blood loss that is refractory to standard hemostatic interventions. Recombinant factor VIIa (rF-VIIa) is being increasingly used as rescue therapy in such cases, but little information is available on its safety and efficacy for this indication.
- Publication
Transfusion, 2005, Vol 45, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0041-1132
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.04216.x