Abstract
Patients with coronary artery disease are at increased risk from noncardiac surgery. We examined a population of cardiac patients undergoing noncardiac surgery to determine whether coronary angiography was successfully utilized to identify and treat ischemic heart disease. Our hypothesis was that cardiac complications would not differ between the group of patients who underwent coronary angiography and the group that did not. We conducted a secondary analysis from a prospective, cohort study of 314 patients with stable cardiac disease undergoing elective noncardiac surgery. The cohort was stratified by history of coronary arteriography. Follow-up extended postoperatively for a minimum of 30 days or until discharge if later. Of this cohort, 37.9% of the patients had a coronary angiogram at a median interval of 19 months (range, 1 day-13 years) before surgery. Among the 15 cardiac deaths (4.8%), 14 patients had compensated congestive heart failure and/or diabetes. The two arms were similar by surgical risk. Despite a higher clinical risk (P<.001), the catheterized vs. noncatheterized arm exhibited a similar cardiac morbidity and a lower cardiac mortality (0.8% vs. 7.2%, P=.01). The lower cardiac mortality persisted whether the pa...Continue Reading
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