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Patients with Parkinson’s disease are at increased risk for perioperative complications. In a prospective study of perioperative complications, patients with Parkinson’s disease were at significantly higher risk for all serious complications after correcting for all other risk factors in a multivariate analysis (Odds ratio, 8.14, CI 1.76–37.67) [1].
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Kaplan, E. (2013). Parkinson’s Disease. In: Wong, C., Hamlin, N. (eds) The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3220-3_27
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