Anemia Is a Risk Factor of New Intraoperative Hemorrhagic Stroke During Valve Surgery for Endocarditis.

CONCLUSIONS: Intraoperative hemorrhagic stroke was not rare, and ectopic hemorrhagic stroke, associated with preoperative anemia, was more prevalent than hemorrhagic transformation of existing cerebral lesions. PMID: 25979239 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - May 13, 2015 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Yoshioka D, Toda K, Okazaki S, Sakaguchi T, Miyagawa S, Yoshikawa Y, OSCAR Study Group, Sawa Y Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research