Preoperative asymptomatic leukocytosis and postoperative outcome in cardiac surgery patients

• Eitezaz Mahmood ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eitezaz Mahmood, Ziyad O. Knio

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Ziyad O. Knio ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eitezaz Mahmood, Ziyad O. Knio

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Feroze Mahmood,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Rabia Amir,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sajid Shahul,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Bilal Mahmood,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Yanick Baribeau,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ariel Mueller,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Robina Matyal

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rmatyal1@bidmc.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2887-0852

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