Genomics and the cardiac surgeon
- PMID: 17239225
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00352.x
Genomics and the cardiac surgeon
Abstract
Until recently, genetics was a course relegated to Saturdays in medical school, and molecular biology was a subject you could only discuss while smoking a pipe. Now, some gene polymorphisms may predict perioperative trouble more precisely than a 10% ejection fraction. Gene chips will soon permit designer therapy and a micro-array "signature" will soon become fundamental to pre-operative risk stratification. It is time for the cardiac surgical community to come aboard.
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