Abstract
This article aimed to elucidate the relationship between the occurrence of perioperative and postoperative complications of surgical myocardial revascularization in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). NDM is a disease of worldwide significance, capable of causing major damage to the cardiovascular system, increasing the risk and the severity of atherosclerotic disease. This is a review of the literature on the prognosis of patients with this chronic disease subjected to different surgical methods of myocardial revascularization, associated with other risk factors. The results have shown that patients with DM have a higher risk of worse evolution after surgery, however, this is a heterogeneous group of patients, and other conditions such as hypoglycemic treatment scheme, ethnicity, sex, age and clinical history, also contribute to the outcome. In conclusion, the approach to coronary artery disease in patients with DM depends on an individualized approach to the patient and his comorbidities.