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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;80:1507-1510
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Bloodless Surgery of Acute Type A Aortic Dissection in a Jehovah's Witness Patient

Miralem Pasic, MD, PhD * , Wolfgang Ruisz, MD, Andreas Koster, MD, PhD, Roland Hetzer, MD, PhD

Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Accepted for publication March 16, 2004.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Pasic, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin D-13353, Germany (Email: pasic{at}dhzb.de).

We report successful surgery for acute type A aortic dissection in a Jehovah's Witness patient without the use of any transfusion of allogeneic blood or blood products. We combined the normothermic cross-clamping technique with a blood conservation strategy.




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