Patients With Positive Preoperative Stress Tests Undergoing Vascular Surgery

Conclusions: This case series reports on the authors' experience with patients undergoing high-risk vascular surgery after a positive stress test or catheterization, but without an intervening coronary intervention. All patients received perioperative β-blockade and had a very low adverse cardiac event rate. With reduction of adverse events by β-blockade, the likelihood of a positive event may be reduced and the utility of the test in risk stratification may be questioned.