Severe pulmonary hypertension complicates postoperative outcome of non-cardiac surgery
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Severe pulmonary hypertension complicates postoperative outcome of non-cardiac surgery.
BACKGROUND Whether and how pulmonary hypertension (PH) impacts perioperative outcome in non-cardiac surgery is incompletely understood. METHODS From November 1999, all patients undergoing non-cardiac, non-local anaesthetic surgery and ever examined by echocardiography within 30 days before surgery were screened. Those having echocardiographic pulmonary artery systolic pressure >70 mm Hg were ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aem126