Factor XII deficiency and CABG

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Anyone dealt with this before? From what I have read, "empirical" dosing of FFP and avoidance of Amicar are the keys:

Ann Thorac Surg 2010;89:625-626. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.07.042
Implications for Cardiac Surgery in Patients With Factor XII Deficiency
Paul J. Conaglen, MBChB*, Enoch Akowuah, FRCS (C/Th), MD, Sanjay Theodore, MCh, Victoria Atkinson, MBBS, FRACS

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Accepted for publication July 10, 2009.

If anyone has experience, personal or otherwise, with such a case, I'd appreciate hearing from them.

 

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I have no experience in this but sounds like a good case write-up, given its rarity. Some appear to have proclivity to thrombosis, if they do present with a sign/symptom. Knowing that, unless they presented with a history of diathesis, I'd treat them as a typical bypass patient--fearing a thrombotic complication over a hemorrhagic. The risk of either is probably not much higher, either way.