RT Journal
A1 Dweck MR, Cruden NL
T1 NOncardiac surgery in patients with coronary artery stents
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD July 23
VO 172
IS 14
SP 1054
OP 1055
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3025
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3025
AB 
Patients undergoing noncardiac surgery following coronary artery stent implantation are at increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events in the perioperative period. Large-scale retrospective studies have reported an overall incidence of death or major adverse cardiac events of 2% to 9%, although the risk seems even higher when surgery is performed early after stent implantation.2- 4 This increased risk relates in part to the underlying atherosclerotic burden, the prothrombotic and proinflammatory effects of surgery, and the risk of perioperative stent thrombosis.