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Surgical risk tests related to cardiopulmonary postoperative complications: comparison between upper abdominal and thoracic surgery.
Acta Cir Bras
June 2013
Postgraduate Program in General Basis of Surgery. Botucatu School of Medicine, UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brazil.
Purpose: To investigate if tests used in the preoperative period of upper abdominal or thoracic surgeries are able to differentiate the patients that presented cardiopulmonary postoperative complications.
Methods: Seventy eight patients, 30 submitted to upper abdominal surgery and 48 to thoracic surgery were evaluated. Spirometry, respirometry, manovacuometry, six-minute walk test and stair-climbing test were performed.