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The concept that the natural history of certain heart defects could be positively modified through in utero intervention has stimulated extensive research in fetal cardiac intervention and surgery since the early 1980s.
The purpose of this retrospective observational study is to analyze the value of multiple electrode platelet aggregometry (Multiplate analyzer, Verum Diagnostica, Munich) as a point-of-care (POC) device in adult cardiac surgical patients.
BACKGROUND: Blood platelets release a cocktail of growth factors when activated, some of which are thought to initiate and stimulate repair. EXPERIMENT […]