Transfusion strategies in cardiac surgery: More pieces to the puzzle, more questions to be answered

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¹ Divisions of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minn. Electronic address: pulido.juan@mayo.edu.

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Juan N Pulido. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 Nov.

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. 2015 Nov;150(5):1320-1.

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.08.040. Epub 2015 Aug 15.

¹ Divisions of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minn. Electronic address: pulido.juan@mayo.edu.

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