Morbidity and mortality risk associated with red blood cell and blood-component transfusion in isolated coronary artery bypass grafting.

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Published in Crit Care Med on June 01, 2006

Authors

Colleen Gorman Koch1, Liang Li, Andra I Duncan, Tomislav Mihaljevic, Delos M Cosgrove, Floyd D Loop, Norman J Starr, Eugene H Blackstone

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1: Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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