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l�ll Antifibrinolytic drugs and perioperative hemostasis Slaughter TF; Greenberg CSAm J Hematol 1997[Sep]; 56 (1): 32-6Although excessive bleeding is widely recognized as a common complication of cardiac surgery, the recent success of antifibrinolytic drugs as prophylactic hemostatic agents has received little attention outside the surgical literature. The etiology of the coagulopathy following cardiac surgery is clearly multifactorial; however, the success of antifibrinolytic drugs as hemostatic agents suggests that fibrinolysis contributes to bleeding in this setting. Increasingly widespread administration of these drugs necessitates increased awareness of the risks and benefits posed by perioperative antifibrinolytic therapy. The objectives of this review are to understand the mechanisms of action of antifibrinolytic drugs in the context of the normal hemostatic response and to review evidence pertaining to the efficacy and safety of antifibrinolytic drugs as hemostatic agents during cardiac surgery.|*Cardiac Surgical Procedures[MESH]|Antifibrinolytic Agents/*therapeutic use[MESH]|Blood Loss, Surgical/*prevention & control[MESH]|Hemostasis/*drug effects[MESH]|Humans[MESH] |