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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;88:1812-1813. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.08.032
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Steve K. Singh, MD, MS, Stephen E. Fremes, MD, MS

Division of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave, Suite H410, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5

(Email: stephen.fremes@sunnybrook.ca).

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Lurati Buse and colleagues [1] aimed to ascertain the value of postoperative troponin T (TNT) as a predictor of mid-term (ie, 1-year) mortality or major adverse cardiac events, independently and in combination with the logistic EuroSCORE. They concluded that TNT was a strong independent predictor of 1-year outcomes, and that adding TNT to EuroSCORE improved the prognostic value compared with the EuroSCORE alone.

Although the EuroSCORE was originally validated to calculate operative mortality, it has been shown to be useful in predicting late . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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