PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, cilt.136, sa.3, ss.512-519, 2015 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Nowadays, postoperative flap perfusion impairment still occurs in free flap surgery; despite several studies on microcirculatory physiology, the effect of hemodilution is still extremely controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of acute normovolemic and hypervolemic hemodilution on the incidence of flap survival rate in a microsurgical rat model.