Perioperative Management of Patients with Rheumatic Disease: Cardiovascular Risks, Prevention of Infectious and Thromboembolic Complications, Other Conditions

Abstract

In the first part we reviewed the issues of perioperative administration of steroids, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, biologics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. In this part we will discuss cardiovascular risks, prevention of infectious and thromboembolic complications and the impact of some structural alteration on the process of surgery and perioperative management.

Keywords

• rheumatoid arthritis
• perioperative management
• arthroplasty
• antiphospholipid syndrome
• atlantoaxial subluxation
• temporomandibular joints
• cricoarytenoid arthritis