Why the study?
Does cardiac troponin I measurement predict postoperative and 1-year cardiac complications in patients undergoing infrarenal aortic surgery?
Population
329 consecutive patients undergoing infrarenal aortic surgery over a 2-year period in a single center.
Design
Cohort, Blinded outcome assessment.
Follow-up
1 year
Authors
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May support short-term cardiac risk stratification after aortic surgery; hypothesis-generating for 1-year outcomes and needs prospective validation.
Does cardiac troponin I measurement predict postoperative and 1-year cardiac complications in patients undergoing infrarenal aortic surgery?
Postoperative cardiac troponin I levels >0.54 ng/ml are reliable predictors of short-term cardiac complications until discharge, but do not predict medium-term complications at 1 year after infrarenal aortic surgery.
Godet et al. (2000) studied this question.
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