"Noncardiac Surgery Riskier in the Year After Stenting"
For patients with coronary stents, there is a 1-year window of elevated risks associated with undergoing subsequent noncardiac surgery, a retrospective study suggested. That there is an independent link between stent implantation and such risks is a reminder that "optimal medical therapy alone may be most appropriate in select patients without an acute coronary syndrome," wrote Prashant Vaishnava, MD, an assistant professor of cardiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Kim A. Eagle, MD, of the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, in an accompanying editorial. Learn more.
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