ArticleJAMA2017
Association of Postoperative High-Sensitivity Troponin Levels With Myocardial Injury and 30-Day Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery.
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Who cites it
325 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 887 citations in OpenAlex.
- Guideline for the Comprehensive Perioperative Management of Older Patients With Lung Cancer (2025).Journal of evidence-based medicine · 2026Guideline
- Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor and perioperative complications: a systematic review.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Pooled it
- Perioperative management of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors in patients undergoing elective major noncardiac surgery: a mixed model investigation using systematic review, meta-analysis, multicentre service evaluation, and national survey.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Pooled it
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- Effect of active warming on perioperative cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of anesthesia · 2023Pooled it
- Long-term major adverse cardiovascular events following myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery: meta-analysis.BJS open · 2023Pooled it
- Incidence and risk factors of postoperative acute myocardial injury in noncardiac patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Colchicine to prevent cardiovascular events in thoracic surgery patients with or without coronary artery disease: a secondary analysis.Open heart · 2026Trial
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- Intravenous lidocaine reduces systemic inflammation but not myocardial injury following thoracic surgery for lung cancer: a randomized controlled trial.BMC anesthesiology · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of hypotension prediction index software in reducing intraoperative hypotension in prolonged prone-position spine surgery: a single-center clinical trial.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2025Trial
- Levosimendan for postoperative subclinical heart failure after noncardiac surgery: a randomized, double-blinded, phase III trial.Nature communications · 2025Trial
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- Effect of dexmedetomidine on postoperative high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a prospective, randomised controlled trial.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Trial
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- Preoperative N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide and myocardial injury after stopping or continuing renin-angiotensin system inhibitors in noncardiac surgery: a prespecified analysis of a phase 2 randomised controlled multicentre trial.British journal of anaesthesia · 2024Trial
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- Discontinuation vs. continuation of renin-angiotensin system inhibition before non-cardiac surgery: the SPACE trial.European heart journal · 2024Trial
- Prognostic Value of Preoperative Electrocardiogram in Low-Risk Patients Undergoing Surgical Intervention and General Anesthesia.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2024Trial
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Abstract
importanceLittle is known about the relationship between perioperative high-sensitivity troponin T (hsTnT) measurements and 30-day mortality and myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS).
objectiveTo determine the association between perioperative hsTnT measurements and 30-day mortality and potential diagnostic criteria for MINS (ie, myocardial injury due to ischemia associated with 30-day mortality). DESIGN, SETTING, AND
participantsProspective cohort study of patients aged 45 years or older who underwent inpatient noncardiac surgery and had a postoperative hsTnT measurement. Starting in October 2008, participants were recruited at 23 centers in 13 countries; follow-up finished in December 2013. EXPOSURES: Patients had hsTnT measurements 6 to 12 hours after surgery and daily for 3 days; 40.4% had a preoperative hsTnT measurement. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: A modified Mazumdar approach (an iterative process) was used to determine if there were hsTnT thresholds associated with risk of death and had an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of 3.0 or higher and a risk of 30-day mortality of 3% or higher. To determine potential diagnostic criteria for MINS, regression analyses ascertained if postoperative hsTnT elevations required an ischemic feature (eg, ischemic symptom or electrocardiography finding) to be associated with 30-day mortality.
resultsAmong 21 842 participants, the mean age was 63.1 (SD, 10.7) years and 49.1% were female. Death within 30 days after surgery occurred in 266 patients (1.2%; 95% CI, 1.1%-1.4%). Multivariable analysis demonstrated that compared with the reference group (peak hsTnT <5 ng/L), peak postoperative hsTnT levels of 20 to less than 65 ng/L, 65 to less than 1000 ng/L, and 1000 ng/L or higher had 30-day mortality rates of 3.0% (123/4049; 95% CI, 2.6%-3.6%), 9.1% (102/1118; 95% CI, 7.6%-11.0%), and 29.6% (16/54; 95% CI, 19.1%-42.8%), with corresponding adjusted HRs of 23.63 (95% CI, 10.32-54.09), 70.34 (95% CI, 30.60-161.71), and 227.01 (95% CI, 87.35-589.92), respectively. An absolute hsTnT change of 5 ng/L or higher was associated with an increased risk of 30-day mortality (adjusted HR, 4.69; 95% CI, 3.52-6.25). An elevated postoperative hsTnT (ie, 20 to <65 ng/L with an absolute change ≥5 ng/L or hsTnT ≥65 ng/L) without an ischemic feature was associated with 30-day mortality (adjusted HR, 3.20; 95% CI, 2.37-4.32). Among the 3904 patients (17.9%; 95% CI, 17.4%-18.4%) with MINS, 3633 (93.1%; 95% CI, 92.2%-93.8%) did not experience an ischemic symptom. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, peak postoperative hsTnT during the first 3 days after surgery was significantly associated with 30-day mortality. Elevated postoperative hsTnT without an ischemic feature was also associated with 30-day mortality.
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