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CARDIOVASCULAR ANESTHESIA

An Effective Treatment of Severe Intractable Bleeding After Valve Repair by One Single Dose of Activated Recombinant Factor VII

Herman G. D. Hendriks, MD^*, Joost M. A. A. van der Maaten, MD^*, Joost de Wolf, MD, PhD, Tjalling W. Waterbolk, MD, Maarten J. H. Slooff, MD, PhD, and Jan van der Meer, MD, PhD^||||

Departments of *Anesthesiology, Hematology, Thoracic Surgery, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, and the ||||Division of Hemostasis, Thrombosis and Rheology, University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands

Address correspondence and reprint requests to H. G. D. Hendriks, MD, Groningen University Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands. Address e-mail to h.g.d.hendriks{at}anest.azg.nl

IMPLICATIONS: The successful treatment with recombinant factor VIIa of a patient experiencing intractable bleeding after cardiac surgery is described.

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