Postoperative myocardial damage in patients with coronary artery disease undergoing major non cardiac surgery

Infarcts after surgery

“…Authors overlooked prospective trial of incidence of perioperative infarction EDITOR,--It is unfortunate that N Mamode and colleagues are “not aware of any prospective trial in Britain intended to measure the incidence of perioperative infarction.”1 They have overlooked the prospective trial carried out at the University of Southampton by Seegobin et al, in which the Goldman and Cooperman risk indices were compared as a method of predicting perioperative infarction after non-cardiac surgery 2. They have also overlooked a large anaesthetic literature on perioperative myocardial ischaemia.…”