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CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh 160012, India, Email: drjaswindersingh@yahoo.co.in, Telephone: 91 172 2226 2741, Fax: 91 172 274 4401

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This is in reference to the article ‘Cardiopulmonary Bypass without preoperative exchange transfusion in sicklers’ by Madan M Maddali, et al¹.We would like to congratulate the authors for the excellent article by bringing out important issues and like to emphasise a few points in management of patients with sickle cell disorder.

In patients with sickle cell disease some sickling begins to appear at 85% hemoglobin oxygen saturation and sickling of red blood cells is complete at 38% hemoglobin oxygen saturation, whereas in . . . [Full Text of this Article]