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Does coronary artery perfusion during open-heart surgery with ischaemic arrest affect postoperative SGOT levels?
Does coronary artery perfusion during open-heart surgery with ischaemic arrest affect postoperative SGOT levels?
Postoperative SGOT levels differ in patients with aortic disease undergoing open-heart surgery but lack prognostic significance.
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Postoperative SGOT differences in aortic disease lacked perfusion-time correlation; leaves open coronary perfusion effects on myocardial markers during ischaemic arrest.
Patients with aortic disease irrespective of whether they had coronary perfusion or not showed a significant difference in the level of postoperative SGOT levels compared with other groups. Aortics with coronary perfusion did not show a correlation between SGOT levels and total perfusion time while the other groups did. The levels were not of prognostic significance.
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