La variante del cromosoma 9p21 predice la mortalidad después de la cirugía de injerto de derivación de la arteria

Jochen D Muehlschlegel1, Kuang-Yu Liu, Tjörvi E Perry

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. jmuehlschlegel@partners.org.

Circulation
|September 15, 2010
PubMed
Resumen

Una variante genética específica (rs10116277) en el cromosoma 9p21 está relacionada con un mayor riesgo de mortalidad después de la cirugía de injerto de derivación de la arteria coronaria (CABG). Este hallazgo mejora la precisión de los modelos de predicción de riesgos para los pacientes sometidos a CABG.

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