Warm heart surgery in cold haemagglutinin disease.

Cardiovasc Surg

Institute for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease, University of Milan, Scientific Institute H.S. Raffaele, Italy.

Published: April 1995

Continuous warm retrograde blood cardioplegia and systemic normothermia are a promising method for heart surgery in patients with cold autoimmune disorders in order to avoid the adverse effects of both systemic and coronary hypothermia during cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary bypass. A 59-year-old white man with cold haemagglutinin disease who underwent coronary surgery using continuous retrograde normothermic blood cardioplegia and systemic normothermia is reported.

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