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Genomics and the cardiac surgeon.
Journal of cardiac surgery - 1 Jan 2000
Bullard Miriam Kelley, Swift Mini, Harken Alden
Abstract excerpt
Until recently, genetics was a course relegated to Saturdays in medical school, and molecular biology was a subject you could only discuss while smoking a pipe. Now, some gene polymorphisms may predict perioperative trouble more precisely than a 10% ejection fraction. Gene chips will soon permit designer therapy and a micro-array "signature" will soon become fundamental to pre-operative risk stratification. It is...
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