The authors created 612 matched pairs of patients with a history of hematologic malignancy and controls. They compared operative details, early postoperative complications, and late survival.
Patients with prior diagnosis of malignancy had lower hemoglobin levels and were at greater risk of receiving postoperative blood transfusions (47.4% vs. 35.6%, P0.999) were similar. Thirty-day mortality in patients with hematologic malignancy was 3.3%, and 1.5% in matched controls (P=0.061).Overall survival among patients with cancer was reduced (P
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Impact of Hematologic Malignancies on Outcome of Cardiac Surgery
Source: Annals of Thoracic Surgery
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Author(s): Anita Nguyen, MBBS MS; Hartzell V. Schaff, MD; Arman Arghami, MD; Gabor Bagameri, MD; M. Sertac Cicek, MD; Juan A. Crestanello, MD; Richard C. Daly, MD; Kevin L. Greason, MD; Alberto Pochettino, MD; Phillip G. Rowse, MD; John M. Stulak, MD; Brian D. Lahr, MS; Joseph A. Dearani, MD
