Clinical Study

The Avantgarde Carbostent in Patients Scheduled for Undelayable Noncardiac Surgery

Table 1

Type of noncardiac surgery according to the risk*.

Number of patients ( )

High-risk surgery40
 Abdominal10
 Vascular23
 Thoracic7
Low-risk surgery2
 Urologic1
 Orthopedic1
Revised cardiac risk index#
 1 risk factor2 (5%)
 2 risk factors33 (76.5%)
 3 or more risk factors8 (18.5%)

The risk was defined according to Eagle et al. [9]. The revised cardiac risk index was according to Lee et al. [8].