Is My Patient Fit for Surgery? Navigating Between the Rock of Heart Failure and the Hard Place of Semiurgent Surgery

Circ Heart Fail. 2024 May;17(5):e011609. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011609. Epub 2024 Apr 19.

Authors

Aws Almufleh¹, Michael M Givertz²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada (A.A.).
² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (M.M.G.).

PMID: 38639078
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011609

No abstract available

Keywords: body mass index; general surgery; heart failure; risk assessment; sex.

MeSH terms

Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Heart Failure* / physiopathology
Heart Failure* / surgery
Humans