Will my surgery be cancelled because of my high blood pressure?

Without knowing the actual number or the chronicity of your high blood pressure, it is somewhat difficult to give you a satisfying answer.  As a matter of practice, most surgeons will check with a patient's primary care provider in determining whether the patient is a safe candidate for elective surgery.  Your primary care provider who has presumably been following you for your blood pressure as well ordering the appropriate diagnostic studies would be best positioned to discuss this with your surgeon.  You should absolutely make sure your primary care provider has communicated directly with your surgeon regarding this issue before proceeding.  Episodic hypertension is not a contraindication for surgery.  Severe hypertension which has not been adequately worked up may be a different story.  Hope this helps.  Good luck!

Your internist and your surgeon should speak so that everyone is on the same page. If the anxiety is situational, there are medications that you could take to treat the anxiety before surgery. Your surgeon is going to be the best one to make the call as to whether or not surgery is safe for you. Best, Dr. Nazarian

Your surgeon and anaesthesiologist should know about this in advance.  It is always better to be safe when talking about elective surgery.  If you have particularly high blood pressure your GP will consider putting you on medications to lower it.Dr Rodger ShorttOakville Plastic SurgeonDirector of Cosmetic Surgery Training &Assistant Clinical Professor,McMaster University

Because of anxiety many patients can have temporarily elevated blood pressure. Minor elevation of blood pressure is not a contraindication to surgery. Purchase a blood pressure monitoring device and check your blood pressure at home several times during the day over number of days. Record these and give them to your surgeon.

It could be an issue, you need to notify your surgeon. You might need to get clearance from a cardiologist. Good luck.

You don't quantify how high your BP is, and the absence of a thorough investigation and treatment is curious.  You should notify your surgeon of your condition and hopefully they will determine its significance.

It depends how high it is but you should speak with your surgeon ASAP rather than being cancelled day of surgery. Good luck!

Hello dear.No, but I recommend you to visit a cardiologist, so he's going to be the one to say if you can do it or you may cancelled, so that is somthing that you need to discuss with your doctors. Best wishes :)

You have not stated what your blood pressure reading is currently. If it is truly elevated above normal, and it becomes well controlled with medication and appropriate evaluation, you should be able to undergo any procedure with a high degree of confidence it can be done safely.

Thanks for the question, High blood presure could increase the risk of bleeding. It is important to have normal levels before to do the procedure. Many factors could increase blood presure anxiety of the surgery is one of them. A good presurgical evaluation with your physician and surgeon will determinated the momment of surgery.All the Best!!Dr.Brenda Pache