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The effect of lower body perfusion during Type A Aortic Dissection repair

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

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Source Name: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/6/1070.abstract

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Suk-Won Song, Kyung-Jong Yoo, Yoo Rim Shin, Sun-Hee Lim, and Bum-Koo Cho

Intermittent lower body perfusion during repair of acute DeBakey type I aortic dissection in moderate hypothermic circulatory arrest (MHCA) seems to be protective against renal failure and increase of liver enzymes compared to MHCA only in a study on 107 patients.