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Heart failure and cardiomyopathies
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Perioperative outcomes of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy undergoing non-cardiac surgery
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- Published on: 27 September 2016
- Published on: 27 September 2016Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and the potential influence of etomidate on postoperative outcomes.Show More
We read with interest the paper by Dhillon and colleagues which provided a high quality propensity matched observational study of perioperative outcomes in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).1 This study showed no difference in what they defined as 'hard outcomes' such as myocardial infarction, stroke and death. They did however show an increased incidence of composite end points (10%; p= 0.03) such as post-...
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