Blood Type AB Best Get Well After Heart Bypass Surgery

One treatment is the process undertaken to heart bypass surgery (arterial bypass) which is called coronary artery bypass grafting. It turned out just how good condition after surgery is influenced by the patient's blood group owned.

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center found that blood type affects how well a person's condition after heart bypass surgery.

Blood type AB have better outcomes after heart bypass surgery compared with blood group A, B or O. However, blood group O is more risky require a blood transfusion after surgery.

These findings obtained by analyzing 15,000 patients who underwent bypass surgery and has been published in the meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in Chicago.

The explanation of this condition because of differences in the two proteins in the blood responsible for clotting process of von Willebrand factor (vWF) and Factor VIII (FVIII).

"The genes that exist in people with blood type O have high levels of proteins associated with a low freezing," said Dr Ian J Welsby as the author of the study, as quoted from HealthDay, Tuesday (10/18/2011).

Individual's blood type is determined by two genes inherited from each parent. People with blood type O has two types of genes O, People who have an A or B gene and a gene O (AO and BO) have a better level of protein.

Meanwhile, people who have blood type AB has no O gene in his body that he possessed a high level of clotting proteins. This condition makes it a low risk of bleeding after having heart bypass surgery