title: [Cardiac morbidity and fatalities in patients with vascular surgery. Identification of risk groups].
abstract: Incidence and type of cardiac complications in 701 patients undergoing arterial vascular surgery were prospectively investigated to identify high-risk groups. Cardiac morbidity was 10.1%. Cardiac complications were responsible for 28 deaths (57%). Using logistic regression analysis, age (cardiac morbidity greater than 7017.3%), impaired renal function (19.8%), and congestive heart failure (17.3%) were the main independent risk factors. In addition, 4 risk factors (arrhythmia, coronary artery disease, anemia, emergency surgery) showed significant individual association with cardiac complications. Cardiac morbidity increased to 27.8% in patients with more than 2 of these 7 risk factors. A further association could be demonstrated between the degree of peripheral vascular disease and cardiac morbidity, but not with the extent of the operation. Based on our results a distinction between three groups of different cardiac risk can be made. A clinical algorithm for further cardiac assessment in high-risk patients is presented.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Allgemein- und Abdominalchirurgie, Universität Mainz.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Menke
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bader
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Treese
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Junginger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000401:mortality*; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000401:mortality*; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality*; D012307:Risk Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis