Images in Anesthesiology: Hypercoagulability during Resternotomy for Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis

Anesthesiology. 2017 May;126(5):978. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001524.

Authors

Andrew L Wilkey¹, Judah A Askew, Robert S Farivar, Tjorvi E Perry

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Anesthesia, American Anesthesiology of Minnesota (A.L.W., T.E.P.) and Minneapolis Heart Institute Cardiovascular Surgery (J.A.A., R.S.F.), Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

PMID: 28099247
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001524

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Endocarditis / complications*
Endocarditis / surgery*
Humans
Prosthesis-Related Infections / complications*
Prosthesis-Related Infections / surgery*
Reoperation
Sternotomy*
Thrombelastography / methods
Thrombophilia / complications*