Med Clin Barcelona
The most recent articles from:
August 2013
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
[Consequences of obesity in outcomes after cardiac surgery. Analysis of ARIAM registry].
Obesity is a disease that affects a large part of the population and has been associated with worse outcomes after cardiac surgery. The aim of our study is to evaluate the consequences of obesity related to postoperative complications, hospital length of stay and mortality. ⋯ Obese patients undergoing cardiac surgery have a mortality, rate of complications and length of stay similar to non-obese. Obese patients required less reoperations but developed more frequently postoperative renal failure.