Morbidity and Mortality Associated With Dental Extraction Before Cardiac Operation [1]
The utility of dental extraction for infection prior to planned cardiac surgery is unkown. The authors evaluated the risk of dental extraction in a group of 205 patients for whom elective cardiac surgery was planned. 8% experienced major morbidity after dental extraction, 3% died prior to cardiac surgery, and 3% died following cardiac surgery.
Source name:
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference:
Cardiac [5]