The twelve recommendations are intended to advise physicians on the use of imaging modalities when making a clinical diagnosis, and when to apply imaging for monitoring of disease activity and damage.
Coagulopathy leading to excessive blood loss and large volume red cell transfusion is a frequent complication of cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) that may be caused by low perioperative fibrinogen...
Data from small selected patient populations suggest that the preoperative plasma concentration of fibrinogen influences postoperative blood loss and red blood cell transfusion after cardiac operations, but there are...