Advances in surgical and anaesthetic techniques and an aging patient population have resulted in more complex procedures being performed in greater numbers of aged subjects and in patients with a high likelihood of significant cardiovascular disease. Nearly one fourth of non-cardiac surgical procedures (major intra-abdominal, thoracic, vascular, and orthopaedic procedures) performed in persons older than 65 years have been found to be associated with significant perioperative cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. During previous years the main attempt was to define strategies to accurately estimate perioperative cardiovascular risk based either on the characteristics of surgery and on patient characteristics. More recently preventive medical strategies have been proposed. Therefore, the physician has to be aware of the key elements useful to calculate the perioperative cardiovascular risk, and of the medical preventive treatment or further interventions to adopt in patients candidate to surgery.
Perioperative myocardial infarction in non-cardiac surgery. Pathophysiology and clinical implications / Pietro Amedeo Modesti; Ignazio Simonetti; Giuseppe Olivo. - In: INTERNAL AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE. - ISSN 1828-0447. - STAMPA. - 1:(2006), pp. 177-186. [10.1007/BF02934735]
Perioperative myocardial infarction in non-cardiac surgery. Pathophysiology and clinical implications.
MODESTI, PIETRO AMEDEO;SIMONETTI, IGNAZIO;
2006
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Advances in surgical and anaesthetic techniques and an aging patient population have resulted in more complex procedures being performed in greater numbers of aged subjects and in patients with a high likelihood of significant cardiovascular disease. Nearly one fourth of non-cardiac surgical procedures (major intra-abdominal, thoracic, vascular, and orthopaedic procedures) performed in persons older than 65 years have been found to be associated with significant perioperative cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. During previous years the main attempt was to define strategies to accurately estimate perioperative cardiovascular risk based either on the characteristics of surgery and on patient characteristics. More recently preventive medical strategies have been proposed. Therefore, the physician has to be aware of the key elements useful to calculate the perioperative cardiovascular risk, and of the medical preventive treatment or further interventions to adopt in patients candidate to surgery.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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