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Mitral and Aortic Regurgitation Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
The objective of the paper was to analyse the impact of post procedural mitral regurgitation (MR), in an interaction with aortic regurgitation (AR), on mortality following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).
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Retrograde Autologous Priming During Cardiopulmonary Bypass Reduces Blood Transfusion Rate in Adult Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial
In this experiment, the lowest HCT value during CPB in the study group was significantly higher and only 20% of patients received a blood transfusion. The overall transfusion rate and intraoperative transfusion volume of homologous PRBC units in the RAP group were lower than those in the standard priming group.
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