Key result
Preoperative anemia is linked to increased postoperative mortality and adverse cardiac events after vascular surgery.
Why the study?
Does preoperative anemia predict postoperative mortality and adverse cardiac events in elderly patients undergoing vascular surgery?
Does preoperative anemia predict postoperative mortality and adverse cardiac events in elderly patients undergoing vascular surgery?
Preoperative anemia is an independent predictor of postoperative mortality and adverse cardiac events in elderly patients undergoing vascular surgery.
Supports preoperative anemia assessment in elderly vascular surgery patients; hypothesis-generating for correction trials.
Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China [email protected], [email protected] Disclosure: All authors have seen and approved the revised manuscript. Also, none of the authors received financial support and there are no potential conflicts of interest for this work.
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Xue et al. (2013) studied this question. Preoperative anemia is an independent predictor of postoperative mortality and adverse cardiac events in elderly patients undergoing vascular surgery.
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