Mario Gaudino, Marcus Flather, Davide Capodanno, Milan Milojevic, Deepak L Bhatt, Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai, William E Boden, P J Devereaux, Torsten Doenst, Michael Farkouh, Nicholas Freemantle, Stephen Fremes, John Puskas, Giovanni Landoni, Jennifer Lawton, Patrick O Myers, Björn Redfors, Sigrid Sandner
Cardiac surgery may lead to myocardial damage and release of cardiac biomarkers through various mechanisms such as cardiac manipulation, systemic inflammation, myocardial hypoxia, cardioplegic arrest and ischaemia caused by coronary or graft occlusion. Defining perioperative myocardial infarction (PMI) after cardiac surgery presents challenges, and the association between the current PMI definitions and postoperative outcomes remains uncertain. To address these challenges, the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) facilitated collaboration among a multidisciplinary group to evaluate the existing evidence on the mechanisms, diagnosis and prognostic implications of PMI after cardiac surgery...
February 1, 2024: European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery