Emergencies in cardiovascular surgery
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Methods In emergency situation, preoperative patient work-up for cardio-vascular surgery is quite different from the elective setting. Since 03/2000 till 01/2012 we have analyzed a consecutive series of 12 172 cases out of which 2214 underwent emergency procedures (18.19%). The most frequent problems requiring urgent intervention were thoracic aortic aneurysms (448 cases; 20.24%); coronary artery disease (1006 cases; 45.47%) abdominal aortic aneurysms (125 cases 66 with rupture; 2.96%), peripheral vascular (364 cases; 16.46%), and others (329 cases: 14.87%).
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