%0 Journal Article %T P¨¦ptido natriur¨¦tico cerebral y su pro-hormona como predictor de riesgo cardiovascular en cirug¨ªa no cardiaca %A Correa Padilla %A Jorge Miguel %J Revista Cubana de Anestesiolog£¿-a y Reanimaci£¿3n %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X introduction: the prevalence of the cardiovascular disease increases with age and the major non-cardiac surgery is associated with a high risk of early cardiovascular complications. objectives: to make an updating on the usefulness of the cerebral natriuretic peptide and the terminal fraction of its pro-hormone as a predictor of the cardiovascular risk in non-cardiac surgery. development: traditionally is has been proposed that the imbalance among factors modifying the contribution/consumption of 02 at myocardial level, as well as the hemoglobin levels and the plate vulnerability are the factor with a great incidence in the appearance of perioperative cardiac complications. in past years, the usefulness of both peptides in diagnosis and prognosis of patients presenting with a cardiac failure, have lead to a great interest on its potential use as prognosis in the appearance of postoperative cardiovascular complications. complications: both natriuretic peptides are a significant tool in prediction or cardiovascular morbility and mortality in non-cardiac surgery and also are independent cardiovascular risk factors with a high sensitivity and specificity. %K non-cardiac surgery %K cerebral natriuretic peptide %K terminal fraction of its pro-hormone %K cardiovascular complications. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1726-67182012000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en