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Peripheral Vasoconstriction During Mental Stress and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

Saturday, October 26, 2019

Submitted by

Aristotle Protopapas

Source

Source Name: Circulation Research

Source URL: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.315005

Author(s)

Jeong Hwan Kim, Zakaria Almuwaqqat, Muhammad Hammadah, Chang Liu, Yi-An Ko, Bruno Lima, Samaah Sullivan, Ayman Alkhoder, Rami Abdulbaki, Laura Ward, J. Douglas Bremner, David S. Sheps, Paolo Raggi, Yan V. Sun, Amit J. Shah, Viola Vaccarino, Arshed A. Quyyumi

Interesting clinicolaboratory experiment: Any translational value for the coronary surgeon and the cardiologist remains to be seen, especially regarding the risk stratification and prioritization for urgent (inpatient) revascularisation. Also, the value of the observation for the cardiovascular anesthetist may be important with regards to induction of anesthesia for CABG.