The Association Between Perioperative Point-of-Care Platelet Function Analyses and Transfusion Requirements in Cardiac Surgery: Methodological Considerations

Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1716325

Letter to the Editor

Mate Petricevic

¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Department of Health Studies, University of Split, UHC Zagreb, Split, Croatia

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Mirna Petricevic

²Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia

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Dragan Piljic

³Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Kresimir Rotim

⁴University of Applied Health Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

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