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Fibrinogen Levels After Cardiac Surgical Procedures: Association With Postoperative Bleeding, Trigger Values, and Target Values

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Submitted by

Arie Blitz

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(16)00006-0/abstract

Author(s)

Marco Ranucci, MD, Valeria Pistuddi, Ekaterina Baryshnikova, PhD (Biol), Dionisio Colella, MD, Paolo Bianchi, MD

These authors analyzed retrospectively the effect of postoperative fibrinogen level on bleeding after heart surgery in their database of 2,800 patients. They found that serum fibrinogen levels lower than 220 mg/dl more than doubled the risk of postoperative bleeding.

Is it time to standardize the measurement of postop fibrinogen in cardiac surgery?