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Cardiorespiratory effects of venous lipid micro embolization in an experimental model of mediastinal shed blood reinfusion

Retransfusion of the patient's own blood during surgery is used to reduce the need for allogenic blood transfusion. It has however been found that this blood contains lipid particles, which form emboli in diff...

Atli Eyjolfsson, Ignacio Plaza, Björn Brondén… in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (2009)