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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Rubin 505 Clinical Research Section, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756

(Email: jeremiah.r.brown@dartmouth.edu).

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Dr Ranucci and colleagues present a robust and timely analysis on the utility of preoperative severe anemia in modeling mortality after adult cardiac surgery [1]. The authors recognize a substantial gap in cardiac surgery prediction modeling for mortality in both the United States (Society for Thoracic Surgeons and the Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group [NNE]) and Europe (EuroScore): severe anemia at the presentation for cardiac surgery. Propensity matching was used to retrospectively balance . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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