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Letters to the Editor

Reply to Lema and Canessa

^a Department of Cardiac Surgery, S. Andrea Hospital, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Rome 00189, Italy
^b Department of Nephrology, S. Andrea Hospital, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy

Received 9 October 2007; accepted 11 October 2007.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +39 0633775310; fax: +39 0633775483. (Email: caterinasimon@hotmail.com).

Key Words: Cardiac surgery • Creatinine clearance • CPB

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Our results confirm that preoperative ClCr value is able to influence the short-term outcome instead the CPB time, the clamp-time and the type of cardiac surgery procedure. We think that with the new technology, such . . . [Full Text of this Article]