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Acute normovolemic red cell exchange for cardiopulmonary bypass in sickle cell disease.
Ann Thorac Surg
May 1998
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Blood Bank Division), University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 77555-0717, USA.
A patient with sickle cell disease (hematocrit, 28.5%; hemoglobin S fraction, 79%), required mitral valve repair. Partial red cell removal and blood component sequestration with an autotransfusion device before cardiopulmonary bypass initially decreased the sickle red cell mass.
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