Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 133-136 , January 2010

Coronary artery bypass graft surgery depletes plasma thiamine levels

  • Michael W. Donnino, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    • Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +617-754-2323; fax: +617-754-2350.
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  • Michael N. Cocchi, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Howard Smithline, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Erin Carney, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Peter P. Chou, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute, Chantilly, Virginia, USA
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  • Justin Salciccoli, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Received 10 February 2009 ,Accepted 1 June 2009.

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 This project was funded from grant P30 DK040561 from the National Institutes of Health.

PII: S0899-9007(09)00250-0

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.06.004

Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 133-136 , January 2010

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