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Preoperative risk stratification using electron beam computed tomography in elective vascular surgery: relationship
Joseph Caravalho1, Sean D O'Donnell, Irwin M Feuerstein
1Department of Medicine and Cardiology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Annals of Vascular Surgery
|September 10, 2002
Abstract:
We studied the utility of electron beam computed tomography as a screening test for the cardiovascular risk of elective vascular surgery. In 45 patients undergoing principally carotid and aortic surgical procedures, coronary artery calcification was prevalent and severe, and related to the clinically predicted cardiovascular risk of the procedure. However, only the clinically predicted surgical risk, and not coronary artery calcification, was related to the incidence of perioperative cardiovascular complications.