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What is the long-term prognosis of acute bowel ischaemia following cardiac surgery, and can a prediction model identify high-risk patients?
What is the long-term prognosis of acute bowel ischaemia following cardiac surgery, and can a prediction model identify high-risk patients?
A simple prediction model can identify patients at high risk of developing acute bowel ischaemia after cardiac surgery, a complication with high short-term mortality but similar long-term mortality for hospital survivors.
Highlights need for acute-phase vigilance after cardiac surgery; supports prediction models but leaves their impact unproven.
We have shown that whilst bowel ischaemia carries a higher short-term mortality, the long-term mortality is not significantly greater for those few who survive to discharge. We have developed a simple prediction model to identify those at high risk of developing bowel ischaemia following cardiac surgery in order to optimize perioperative strategies in future.
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Ariyaratnam et al. (2015) studied this question.
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