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Predictive genomics of adverse events after cardiac surgery.
Seminars in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia - 1 Dec 2004
Fox Amanda A, Shernan Stanton K, Body Simon C
Abstract excerpt
Significant, yet highly individual, thrombotic and inflammatory responses to surgery provide an excellent opportunity for insight into the genomic impact upon a patient's postoperative course. Cardiac surgery elicits the most profound perioperative disturbance and is associated with the highest incidence of adverse outcomes of any elective surgical procedure. Thus, cardiac surgical patients are an ideal...
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