Preoperative Aspirin Discontinuation Management and Bleeding Outcome in Elective Coronary Artery Surgery

Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013; 61(08): 731-732
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1348318

Letter to the Editor

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Mate Petricevic

¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Center Zagreb, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Bojan Biocina

¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Center Zagreb, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Ivica Safradin

¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Center Zagreb, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Hrvoje Gasparovic

¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Center Zagreb, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

References
1 Al-Lawati AA, Muthuswamy V. Continuing Aspirin Causes Higher Drainage Even under Full Protection with Antifibrinolytics. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013; doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1328927
2 Petricevic M, Biocina B, Konosic S, Kopjar T, Kunac N, Gasparovic H. Assessment of platelet function by whole blood impedance aggregometry in coronary artery bypass grafting patients on acetylsalicylic acid treatment may prompt a switch to dual antiplatelet therapy. Heart Vessels 2013; 28 (1) 57-65
3 Petricevic M, Biocina B, Milicic D , et al. Bleeding risk assessment using multiple electrode aggregometry in patients following coronary artery bypass surgery. J Thromb Thrombolysis 2013; 35 (1) 31-40

References
1 Al-Lawati AA, Muthuswamy V. Continuing Aspirin Causes Higher Drainage Even under Full Protection with Antifibrinolytics. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013; doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1328927
2 Petricevic M, Biocina B, Konosic S, Kopjar T, Kunac N, Gasparovic H. Assessment of platelet function by whole blood impedance aggregometry in coronary artery bypass grafting patients on acetylsalicylic acid treatment may prompt a switch to dual antiplatelet therapy. Heart Vessels 2013; 28 (1) 57-65
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