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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 44, 529-531, Copyright © 1987 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Reduction of perioperative hemorrhage by anterior mediastinal spray application of fibrin glue during cardiac operations

WD Spotnitz, MS Dalton, JW Baker and SP Nolan
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville 22908.

A variety of published techniques for the production of concentrated fibrinogen from units of screened single-donor human plasma have led to increasing clinical use of fibrin glue in the United States. We have adapted a method of applying this material with a disposable plastic sprayer. In 20 consecutively treated patients, fibrin glue was sprayed on the anterior mediastinum before closure of the median sternotomy incision. A control group of 20 patients undergoing the identical cardiac operations (13 coronary artery bypass grafting procedures [CABG], 4 valve replacements [including 1 reoperative procedure], and 3 combined valve replacements and CABG) by the same surgeon within a one- year period was chosen for comparison of chest tube outputs. Specifically, chest tube outputs were as follows for treated and untreated patients, respectively: at 12 hours, 461 +/- 40 ml (mean +/- 1 standard error of the mean versus 731 +/- 80 ml; at 24 hours, 714 +/- 73 ml versus 1,016 +/- 109 ml; and at 48 hours, 863 +/- 93 ml versus 1,187 +/- 137 ml. The differences between control and spray chest tube output are statistically significant by unpaired t test (p less than 0.05) at both 12 and 24 hours. Thus, this method can reduce perioperative hemorrhage from the anterior mediastinum after cardiac operations.

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