P J Devereaux, Bruce M Biccard, Alben Sigamani, Denis Xavier, Matthew T V Chan, Sadeesh K Srinathan, Michael Walsh, Valsa Abraham, Rupert Pearse, C Y Wang, Daniel I Sessler, Andrea Kurz, Wojciech Szczeklik, Otavio Berwanger, Juan Carlos Villar, German Malaga, Amit X Garg, Clara K Chow, Gareth Ackland, Ameen Patel, Flavia Kessler Borges, Emilie P Belley-Cote, Emmanuelle Duceppe, Jessica Spence, Vikas Tandon, Colin Williams, Robert J Sapsford, Carisi A Polanczyk, Maria Tiboni, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Atiya Faruqui, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Andre Lamy, Richard Whitlock, Yannick LeManach, Pavel S Roshanov, Michael McGillion, Peter Kavsak, Matthew J McQueen, Lehana Thabane, Reitze N Rodseth, Giovanna A Lurati Buse, Mohit Bhandari, Ignacia Garutti, Michael J Jacka, Holger J Schünemann, Olga Lucía Cortes, Pierre Coriat, Nazari Dvirnik, Fernando Botto, Shirley Pettit, Allan S Jaffe, Gordon H Guyatt
IMPORTANCE: Little is known about the relationship between perioperative high-sensitivity troponin T (hsTnT) measurements and 30-day mortality and myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS). OBJECTIVE: To 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 PARTICIPANTS: Prospective cohort study of patients aged 45 years or older who underwent inpatient noncardiac surgery and had a postoperative hsTnT measurement...
April 25, 2017: JAMA