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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:1799
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Bypass prime and plasma expander can interfere with cardiac troponin I assay

Hans-Jürgen Dieterich, MDa

a Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Tübingen University Hospital, Hoppe-Seyler-Str 3, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

e-mail: hjdieter@med.uni-tuebingen.de

To the Editor

With great interest I read the article by Franke and co-workers [1] comparing retrograde versus antegrade crystalloid cardioplegia in coronary artery bypass grafting. They used levels of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) as a sensitive and specific marker for detection of minor differences in myocardial ischemia . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Bypass prime and plasma expander can interfere with cardiac troponin I assay: Reply
Ulrich Franke, Thorsten Wahlers, and Tina U. Cohnert
Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2001 72: 1799-1800. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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