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Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Management of Elderly Men with an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

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  1. Department of Anaesthesiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Don Poldermans MD, PhD

  2. Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Jeroen J. Bax MD, PhD

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Section of Vascular Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK

    George Geroulakos MD, FRCS, DIC, PhD (President and Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Senior Lecturer) (President and Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Senior Lecturer)

  2. Department of Surgery, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK

    George Geroulakos MD, FRCS, DIC, PhD (President and Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Senior Lecturer) (President and Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Senior Lecturer)

  3. Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Hero van Urk MD, PhD, FRCS (Professor of Vascular Surgery) (Professor of Vascular Surgery)

  4. Division of Vascular Surgery, UMDNJ-NJMS (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey — New Jersey Medical School), Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Robert W. Hobson II MD (Professor of Surgery and Physiology, Director) (Professor of Surgery and Physiology, Director)

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Poldermans, D., Bax, J.J. (2006). Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Management of Elderly Men with an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. In: Geroulakos, G., van Urk, H., Hobson, R.W. (eds) Vascular Surgery. Springer, London . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-211-X_1

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