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Prognostic value of dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography for peri-operative and late cardiac events in patients scheduled for vascular surgery.

Cardiac events in the peri-operative phase and late after non-cardiac vascular surgery are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Numerous tests and diagnostic strategies--usually consisting of a combination of analysis of clinical risk factors and additional non-exercise dependent stress testing, such as thallium scintigraphy, or stress echocardiography--have been developed to preoperatively identify patients with increased risk. The tests ideally should identify three subpopulations in a group with a high prevalence of coronary artery disease; (1) low-risk patients who can be referred for surgery without extra cardiac intervention. (2) patients whose peri-operative cardiac risk outweighs the potential benefits of vascular surgery, (3) patients whose risk may be reduced by peri-operative therapeutic interventions. This review will discuss the prognostic value of dobutamine stress echocardiography for risk stratification in patients scheduled for non-cardiac vascular surgery and discuss guidelines for future management.[1]

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  1. Prognostic value of dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography for peri-operative and late cardiac events in patients scheduled for vascular surgery. Poldermans, D., Rambaldi, R., Fioretti, P.M., Boersma, E., Thomson, I.R., van Sambeek, M.R., van Urk, H. Eur. Heart J. (1997) [Pubmed]
 
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