title: CASE 12-2016 Ascending Aorta Dissection in a Jehovah's Witness Patient on Warfarin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Silvetti
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Crivellari
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Castiglioni
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: landoni.giovanni@hsr.it.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Landoni
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zangrillo
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Ottavio
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Alfieri
authors.affiliation: Institute of Anaesthesiology, Bad Oeynhausen, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Koster
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Faraoni
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, Surgical Intensive Care, Prehospital Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bolliger
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Kenichi A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery*; D000925:Anticoagulants; D000933:Antifibrinolytic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D001779:Blood Coagulation Factors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006493:Heparin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D033221:Jehovah's Witnesses; D008297:Male; D019106:Postoperative Hemorrhage / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014148:Tranexamic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014859:Warfarin / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants; D000933:Antifibrinolytic Agents; D001779:Blood Coagulation Factors; C025667:prothrombin complex concentrates; D014859:Warfarin; D014148:Tranexamic Acid; D006493:Heparin
keywords: Jehovah's Witness; anesthesia; bleeding; cardiac anesthesia; cardiac surgery; coagulation; hemostasis; intensive care