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Numbers of patients with perioperative complications (n=84 in each group)
| Control
|
Intraoperative cell salvage
|
Combined treatment
|
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Without complications | 42 | 46 | 46 |
| Inotropes required after 24 hours | 9 | 12 | 11 |
| Surgical bleeding | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Cerebrovascular accident | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Arrhythmias | 27 | 17 | 20 |
| Renal failure | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Proven infection | 7 | 11 | 7 |
| Myocardial infarction | 10 | 5 | 4 |
