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  • Title: Mitral valve replacement and tricuspid valve repair in a patient with sickle cell disease.
    Author: Lazopoulos G, Kantartzis MM, Kantartzis M.
    Journal: Thorac Cardiovasc Surg; 2008 Feb; 56(1):56-7. PubMed ID: 18200471.
    Abstract:
    Sickle cell disease is a rare entity for the European cardiac surgeon to encounter. Low oxygen tension, acidosis and hypothermia may induce sickling and pose a great risk in this population during open heart surgery. We report the management of a 57-year-old Greek woman with homozygous sickle cell disease and rheumatoid arthritis, who underwent preoperative partial exchange transfusion and subsequent mitral valve replacement and tricuspid valve repair at normothermia.
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