Why the study?
Data among patients with pulmonary hypertension undergoing elective non-cardiac surgery are scant, and the condition may be unidentified at surgery with limited postoperative monitoring.
Unrecognized pulmonary hypertension in non-cardiac surgical patients can result in higher postoperative complication rates and poor outcomes due to limited monitoring and evaluation.
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Scant data on pulmonary hypertension in elective non-cardiac surgery leave open the need for dedicated prospective perioperative studies.
Roop Kaw (2023) studied this question.