Multiple Electrode Aggregometry and Prediction of Bleeding and Transfusion Outcomes in Adult Cardiac Surgery Patients: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for Future

Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013; 61(08): 744-746
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1353533

Letter to the Editor

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Authors

Mate Petricevic

¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Kispaticeva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Bojan Biocina

²Department of Cardiac Surgery, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Davor Milicic

³Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ante Lekic

²Department of Cardiac Surgery, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivica Safradin

²Department of Cardiac Surgery, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Hrvoje Gasparovic

²Department of Cardiac Surgery, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

References
1 Schimmer C, Hamouda K, Sommer SP, Ozkur M, Hain J, Leyh R. The Predictive Value of Multiple Electrode Platelet Aggregometry (Multiplate) in Adult Cardiac Surgery. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013; . 10.1055/s-0033-1333659
2 Petricevic M, Biocina B, Milicic D , et al. Bleeding risk assessment using multiple electrode aggregometry in patients following coronary artery bypass surgery. J Thromb Thrombolysis 2013; 35 (1) 31-40
3 Petricevic M, Biocina B, Milicic D , et al. Bleeding risk assessment using whole blood impedance aggregometry and rotational thromboelastometry in patients following cardiac surgery. J Thromb Thrombolysis 2013; 10.1007/s11239-013-0868-1

References
1 Schimmer C, Hamouda K, Sommer SP, Ozkur M, Hain J, Leyh R. The predictive value of multiple electrode platelet aggregometry (Multiplate™) in adult cardiac surgery. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013; . DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1333659.
2 Weber CF, Görlinger K, Meininger D , et al. Point-of-care testing: a prospective, randomized clinical trial of efficacy in coagulopathic cardiac surgery patients. Anesthesiology 2012; 117 (3) 531-547
3 Petricevic M, Biocina B, Milicic D , et al. Bleeding risk assessment using multiple electrode aggregometry in patients following coronary artery bypass surgery. J Thromb Thrombolysis 2013; 35 (1) 31-40
4 Petricevic M, Biocina B, Milicic D , et al. Bleeding risk assessment using whole blood impedance aggregometry and rotational thromboelastometry in patients following cardiac surgery. J Thromb Thrombolysis 2013; ; 10.1007/s11239-013-0868-1