title: Surgery and coronary heart disease.
abstract: Surgeons are frequently confronted with a patient who has recently had a myocardial infarction, needs an operation urgently, or has a postoperative infarction. This paper examines the extreme caution necessary when surgery is scheduled for a patient with coronary heart disease.
mesh_terms: D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012306:Risk; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative