Why the study?
Do postoperative increases in serum troponins predict cardiovascular complications at 3 months in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery?
Population
80 patients undergoing vascular or major orthopaedic surgery
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
3 months
Authors
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May support postoperative troponin monitoring in noncardiac surgery; hypothesis-generating pending interventional trials.
Do postoperative increases in serum troponins predict cardiovascular complications at 3 months in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery?
Postoperative troponin T elevation is a strong predictor of major and minor cardiovascular complications at 3 months in patients undergoing vascular or major orthopedic surgery.
Neill et al. (2000) studied this question.
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