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BACKGROUND: There are limited data on surgical complications for patients that have delayed surgery after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We aimed to analyze the surgical outcomes of patients submitted to surgery after recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection. METHODS: Asymptomatic patients that had surgery delayed after preoperative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for SARS-CoV-2 were matched in a 1:2 ratio for age, type of surgery and American Society of Anesthesiologists to patients with negative RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2. RESULTS: About 1253 patients underwent surgical procedures and were subjected to screening for SARS-CoV-2. Forty-nine cases with a delayed surgery were included in the coronavirus disease (COVID) recovery (COVID-rec) group and were matched to 98 patients included in the COVID negative (COVID-neg) group. Overall, 22 (15%) patients had 30-days postoperative complications, but there was no statistically difference between groups -16.3% for COVID-rec and 14.3% for COVID-neg, respectively (odds ratio [OR] 1.17:95% confidence interval [CI] 0.45-3.0; p = .74). Moreover, we did not find difference regarding grades more than or equal to 3 complication rates - 8.2% for COVID-rec and 6.1% for COVID-neg (OR 1.36:95%CI 0.36-5.0; p = .64). There were no pulmonary complications or SARS-CoV-2 related infection and no deaths within the 30-days after surgery. CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that patients with delayed elective surgeries due to asymptomatic preoperative positive SARS-CoV-2 test are not at higher risk of postoperative complications.
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COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing , COVID-19/diagnosis , Elective Surgical Procedures , Postoperative Complications/epidemiology , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Time-to-Treatment , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Asymptomatic Infections , Case-Control Studies , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Young AdultABSTRACT
Obstruçäo tardia e degeneraçäo aterosclerótica da artéria mamária interna, empregada na revascularizaçäo direta do miocárdio, säo raramente demonstradas. Isto confere melhor evoluçäo dos pacientes operados com este tipo de enxerto arterial. A artéria epigástrica inferior é continuaçäo da artéria mamária. A partir da artéria ilíaca externa, de onde se origina, tem normalmente diâmetro e comprimento adequados para ser usada como enxerto livre na revascularizaçäo dos ramos coronarianos das faces anterior e lateral do coraçäo. A artéria epigástrica inferior foi empregada em três pacientes para revascularizaçäo da descendente anterior (2 casos) e diagonalis, (1 caso) associada a artéria mamária interna esquerda e veia safena. Os pacientes tiveram evoluçäo pós-operatória normal. A cineangiografia pós-operatória mostrou os três enxertos livres de artéria epigástrica pérvios assim como os de artéria mamária interna e veia safena. A arteria epigástrica inferior poderá ser mais uma opçäo para a revascularizaçäo direta do miocárdio
