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Anesthetic Considerations for Elderly Patients Undergoing Vascular Surgery

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By 2030, one in five Americans will be aged 65 or older, nearly double the 12% in 2000. Lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is now known to be associated with equal morbidity and mortality and comparable (or higher) health economic costs as coronary heart disease (CHD) and ischemic stroke. In contrast to coronary heart disease, relatively few genetic variants that influence susceptibility to PAD have been discovered due to greater clinical and genetic heterogeneity in PAD.

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Saxena, S. (2017). Anesthetic Considerations for Elderly Patients Undergoing Vascular Surgery. In: Chaer, R. (eds) Vascular Disease in Older Adults. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29285-4_3

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