Risk of Major Adverse Cardiac Events Following Noncardiac Surgery in Patients With Coronary Stents

IMPORTANCE Guidelines recommend delaying noncardiac surgery in patients after coronary stent procedures for 1 year after drug-eluting stents (DES) and for 6 weeks after bare metal stents (BMS). The evidence underlying these recommendations is limited and conflicting. OBJECTIVE To determine risk fact...

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Published in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2013-10, Vol.310 (14), p.1462-1472
Main Authors: Hawn, Mary T, Graham, Laura A, Richman, Joshua S, Itani, Kamal M. F, Henderson, William G, Maddox, Thomas M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality
Cohort Studies
Drug-Eluting Stents
Female
General aspects
Heart attacks
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction - etiology
Myocardial Revascularization - statistics & numerical data
Nonlinear Dynamics
Postoperative Complications
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Radiotherapy. Instrumental treatment. Physiotherapy. Reeducation. Rehabilitation, orthophony, crenotherapy. Diet therapy and various other treatments (general aspects)
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Stents
Surgery
Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases
Surgery of the heart
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Time Factors
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