Observational studyBritish journal of anaesthesia2021
Postoperative troponin increases after noncardiac surgery are associated with raised neurofilament light: a prospective observational cohort study.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Interventions for Postoperative Delirium: Biomarker-2 (IPOD-B2) Pilot Study
Interventions for Postoperative Delirium: Biomarker-3
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dexmedetomidine for delirium prevention in adult patients following cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Incidence and risk factors of postoperative acute myocardial injury in noncardiac patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Association between serum neurofilament light chains and Life's Essential 8: A cross-sectional analysis.PloS one · 2025Article
- Epigenetic regulation of inflammation in post-operative organ dysfunction: A scoping review protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
- Perioperative ischaemic brain injury and plasma neurofilament light: a secondary analysis of two prospective cohort studies.British journal of anaesthesia · 2023Article
- Postoperative delirium and changes in the blood-brain barrier, neuroinflammation, and cerebrospinal fluid lactate: a prospective cohort study.British journal of anaesthesia · 2022Article
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- Reduced Electroencephalogram Complexity in Postoperative Delirium.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2022Article
- Role of interleukin-18 in postoperative delirium: an exploratory analysis.British journal of anaesthesia · 2022Article
- Mechanisms of Post-critical Illness Cardiovascular Disease.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Review
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11 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundMyocardial and neuronal injury occur commonly after noncardiac surgery. We examined whether patients who had perioperative myocardial injury (PMI) also incurred neuronal injury, and whether myocardial and neuronal injury were associated with similar changes in inflammatory markers or overlapping clinical predictors.
methodsA total of 114 individuals >65 yr old were recruited from two ongoing perioperative cohort studies (NCT02926417; NCT03124303). Plasma samples were collected before and daily after surgery to process assays for troponin I (PMI), neurofilament light (NfL; neuronal injury) and multiplexed plasma cytokines (inflammation). The primary outcome was the change in NfL in individuals with PMI (>40 pg ml
resultsNinety-six patients had paired NfL and troponin data. Twenty-three of 94 subjects (24%) with PMI had greater increases in NfL (median [inter-quartile range, IQR]: 29 pg ml
conclusionsPostoperative troponin increases were associated with changes in NfL and inflammatory cytokines. Increases in troponin, but not NfL, were associated with intraoperative hypotension, suggesting differences in the mechanisms contributing to neuronal and myocardial injury.
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