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Cardiac Surgery in Jehovah's Witness Patients: Ten-Year Experience

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1 Cardiac Surgery in Jehovah's Witness Patients: Ten-Year Experience
Arminder Singh Jassar, MBBS, Patricia A. Ford, MD, Howard L. Haber, MD, FACC, Alice Isidro, PA, Jabaris D. Swain, MD, Joseph E. Bavaria, MD, Charles R. Bridges, MD, ScD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 93, Issue 1, Pages (January 2012) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Although Jehovah's Witness (JW) patients refuse transfusion of primary blood components (above dotted line) as directed by the Watch Tower Society, acceptance of other components or blood substitutes (below dotted line) has been left to the individual patient. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , 19-25DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier analysis of long-term survival of Jehovah's Witness patients after cardiac surgery. (AVR = aortic valve replacement; CABG = coronary artery bypass graft surgery.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , 19-25DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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