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Ann Thorac Surg 2008;86:349-350. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.01.023
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Off-Pump Surgery, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, and Renal Dysfunction

Guillermo Lema, MDa, Roberto Canessa, MDa, Jorge Urzua, MDb

a Department of Anesthesiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Marcoleta 367, PO Box 114-D, Santiago RM, Chile
b Santo Tomas University, Santiago, Chile

(Email: glema@med.puc.cl).

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To the Editor:

The article by Di Mauro and colleagues [1] offers an interesting view of data from patients undergoing coronary surgical procedures and their impact on renal dysfunction, one of the complications of cardiac operations. The importance of preoperative renal dysfunction has already been described in cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) [2]. We would like to add some comments to the discussion.

The overall results show that patients with abnormal preoperative renal dysfunction have an incidence of postoperative renal failure that similar between both techniques. We could hypothesized . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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