Negative Reexploration for Cardiac Postoperative Bleeding: Can It Be Therapeutic?

Background. Reexploration of the mediastinum for bleeding is required in 3% to 7% of patients after cardiac operation, with many proving to have no surgically correctable cause. In spite of a “negative exploration,” the bleeding often ceases. We propose the hypothesis that such a negative exploratio...

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