The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 3 , Pages 621-627, March 2010

Preoperative very short-term, high-dose erythropoietin administration diminishes blood transfusion rate in off-pump coronary artery bypass: A randomized blind controlled study

Cardiac Surgery Department, European Hospital, Rome, Italy

Received 30 April 2009; received in revised form 9 September 2009; accepted 4 October 2009. published online 30 December 2009.

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 Disclosures: None.

PII: S0022-5223(09)01336-1

doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.10.012

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 3 , Pages 621-627, March 2010