ReviewPerfusion2021
Outcomes of cardiac surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients: A review.
Review in Perfusion, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Aortic dissection in a Jehovah's witness: Frozen Elephant Trunk and subsequent 4D flow MRI analysis, a case report.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2026Article
- Surgical Outcomes of Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection in Jehovah's Witness Patients.Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia · 2026Article
- Mechanical Support Escalation to Bridge Anemic Jehovah's Witness to Cardiac Transplantation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- 2024 EACTS/EACTAIC Guidelines on patient blood management in adult cardiac surgery in collaboration with EBCP.Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2025Article
- 2024 EACTS/EACTAIC Guidelines on patient blood management in adult cardiac surgery in collaboration with EBCP.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2025Article
- The Edges of Clinical Pharmacology: A Narrative Review on Religious and Sociocultural Influences in Drug Management.Clinical and translational science · 2025Review
- Everyday Cardiac Surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses of Typically Advanced Age: Clinical Outcome and Matched Comparison.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Cardiac surgery in Jehovah's Witness children: Clinical characteristics and outcomes from a limited single-center cohort.Annals of pediatric cardiologyArticle
- Coronary artery bypass grafting in Jehovah's Witness patients: a retrospective propensity matched cohort study.Brazilian journal of anesthesiology (Elsevier)Observational
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo review current literature evidence on outcomes of cardiac surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients.
methodsA comprehensive electronic literature search was done from 2010 to 20th August 2020 identifying articles that discussed optimisation/outcomes of cardiac surgery in Jehovah's Witness either as a solo cohort or as comparative to non-Jehovah's Witnesses. No limit was placed on place of publication and the evidence has been summarised in a narrative manner within the manuscript.
resultsThe outcomes of cardiac surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients has been described, and also compared, to non-Witness patients within a number of case reports, case series and comparative cohort studies. Many of these studies note no significant differences between outcomes of the two groups for a number of variables, including mortality. Pre-, intra and post-operative optimisation of the patients by a multidisciplinary team is important to achieve good outcomes.
conclusionThe use of a bloodless protocol for Jehovah's Witnesses does not appear to significantly impact upon clinical outcomes when compared to non-Witness patients, and it has even been suggested that a bloodless approach could provide advantages to all patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Larger cohorts and research across multiple centres into the long term outcomes of these patients is required.
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