Risk of elective major noncardiac surgery after coronary stent insertion: A population-based study

Background-Guidelines recommend that noncardiac surgery be delayed until 30 to 45 days after bare-metal stent implantation and 1 year after drug-eluting stent implantation. Methods and Results-We used linked registry data and population-based administrative health care databases to conduct a cohort study of 8116 patients (â‰1 40 years of age) who underwent major elective noncardiac surgery in Ontario, Canada between 2003 and 2009, and received …