Heart Failure Increases Risk in Noncardiac Surgery

Courtesy MedPage Today Surgery  Thu, 03/27/2008 - 14:23

DURHAM, N.C. -- Heart failure patients who undergo major noncardiac surgery are at greater risk of operative mortality and hospital readmission than are patients with coronary artery disease, investigators here have concluded.

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