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Cardiac surgery, cardiopulmonary bypass, and preoperative renal dysfunction
Santiago, Chile
* E-mail: glema@med.puc.cl
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Editor—We read with interest the paper by Loef and colleagues.1 This complex study adds new information to the subject and the authors should be congratulated for their work. We wish to add some comments and ideas to the discussion. Our group published, in 1998, a study of elective coronary patients with abnormal preoperative renal function undergoing surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB),2 using gold standard techniques to measure glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and effective renal plasma
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Groningen, The Netherlands
* E-mail: b.loef@hccnet.nl