Association of renin angiotensin antagonists with adverse perioperative events in patients undergoing elective orthopaedic surgery: a case-control study.
Amith ZainudheenIan A ScottXenia CaneyPublished in: Internal medicine journal (2018)
This study provides further observational evidence of RAA-induced harm in patients undergoing elective surgery, although determining benefits and harms of preoperative withdrawal of RRA requires prospective randomised trials.
Keyphrases
- patients undergoing
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- clinical trial
- angiotensin converting enzyme
- surgical site infection
- angiotensin ii
- study protocol
- randomized controlled trial
- double blind
- emergency department
- drug induced
- cross sectional
- coronary artery disease
- cardiac surgery
- placebo controlled
- atrial fibrillation
- acute kidney injury