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MOODLEY, Y  e  BICCARD, B M. The impact of acute preoperative beta-blockade on perioperative cardiac morbidity and all-cause mortality in hypertensive South African vascular surgery patients. SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. [online]. 2015, vol.105, n.6, pp.476-479. ISSN 2078-5135.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.8856.

BACKGROUND: Acute β-blockade has been associated with poor perioperative outcomes in non-cardiac surgery patients, probably as a result of β-blocker-induced haemodynamic instability during the perioperative period, which has been shown to be more severe in hypertensive patients. OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of acute preoperative β-blockade on the incidence of perioperative cardiovascular morbidity and all-cause mortality in hypertensive South African (SA) patients who underwent vascular surgery at a tertiary hospital. METHODS: We conducted two separate case-control analyses to determine the impact of acute preoperative β-blockade on the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs, a composite outcome of a perioperative troponin-I leak or all-cause mortality) and perioperative troponin-I leak alone. Case and control groups were compared using χ², Fisher's exact, McNemar's or Student's t-tests, where applicable. Binary logistic regression was used to determine whether acute preoperative β-blocker use was an independent predictor of perioperative MACEs/troponin-I leak in hypertensive SA vascular surgery patients. RESULTS: We found acute preoperative β-blockade to be an independent predictor of perioperative MACEs (odds ratio (OR) 3.496; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.948 - 6.273; p<0.001) and troponin-I leak (OR 5.962; 95% CI 3.085 - 11.52; p<0.001) in hypertensive SA vascular surgery patients. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that acute preoperative β-blockade is associated with an increased risk of perioperative cardiac morbidity and all-cause mortality in hypertensive SA vascular surgery patients.

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