The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 6 , Pages 1445-1447, December 2009

Shedding of the endothelial glycocalyx during cardiac surgery: On-pump versus off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery

  • Dirk Bruegger, MD

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Anesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
    • D.B. and M.R. contributed equally to this article.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Dirk Bruegger, MD, Clinic of Anesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Marchioninistr. 15, D-81377 Munich, Germany.
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  • Markus Rehm, MD

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Anesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
    • D.B. and M.R. contributed equally to this article.
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  • Jan Abicht, MD

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Anesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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  • Joern Oliver Paul, MD

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Anesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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  • Mechthild Stoeckelhuber, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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  • Markus Pfirrmann, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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  • Bruno Reichart, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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  • Bernhard F. Becker, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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  • Frank Christ, MD

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Anesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Received 8 July 2008; received in revised form 22 July 2008 published online 05 February 2009.

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 This work was performed with departmental research funding provided by the Government of Bavaria (Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts, Munich, Germany) and a grant provided by the Friedrich-Baur-Stiftung, Munich, Germany.

PII: S0022-5223(08)01761-3

doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.07.063

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 6 , Pages 1445-1447, December 2009

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