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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004;128:154
© 2004 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the editor

The effect of the dynamic air bubble trap on cerebral microemboli and S100ß

Reza Motallebzadeh, MRCS, Marjan Jahangiri, FRCS

Department of Cardiac Surgery, St George's Hospital & Medical School, London, United Kingdom

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the article by Schoenburg and colleagues1 regarding the use of an air bubble trap during coronary artery bypass grafting. The authors used measurement of S100ß as an indicator of cerebral injury. It is not clear, however, whether they took steps to minimize autotransfusion of S100ß from extracerebral sources. There is good evidence to show that blood aspirated from . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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