Article
Patient predisposition and the inflammatory response following cardiopulmonary bypass : the role of haemolysis
2012-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is necessary for the majority of cardiac surgery however it is often associated with the development of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). In a proportion of patients, SIRS is complicated by acute lung injury (ALI) and the more extreme acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Despite a reduction in mortality with lung protective ventilation, there are no effective t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7699730a-2928-51f9-b9f1-749e234d4bf8
- DOI
- 10.25560/9505
