Population
566 patients with peripheral arterial disease undergoing major vascular operations
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
postoperative
Authors
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May inform preoperative risk stratification in vascular surgery; leaves open prospective validation of derived prediction models.
Identified five key clinical risk factors that can be used in a multivariate equation to predict the probability of postoperative cardiovascular complications in patients undergoing major vascular surgery.
Cooperman et al. (1979) studied this question.