%0 Journal Article %T Hemolysis during cardiac surgery is associated with increased intravascular nitric oxide consumption and perioperative kidney and intestinal tissue damage %A Iris C. Vermeulen Windsant %A Jonas T. C. Sertorio %A Annemarie A. van Bijnen %J Frontiers in Physiology %D 2014 %I Frontiers Media %R 10.3389/fphys.2014.00340 %X Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) and intestinal injury negatively impact patient outcome after cardiac surgery. Enhanced nitric oxide (NO) consumption due to intraoperative intravascular hemolysis, may play an important role in this setting. This study investigated the impact of hemolysis on plasma NO consumption, AKI, and intestinal tissue damage, after cardiac surgery. %K hemolysis %K cardiopulmonary bypass %K acute kidney injury %K nitric oxide %K intestinal fatty acid binding protein %U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2014.00340/abstract