title: Cardiac troponin I release after coronary artery bypass grafting operation: effects on operative and midterm survival.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Markers of myocardial necrosis are usually elevated in patients who have undergone a coronary bypass operation with cardiac arrest. The preferred marker in detecting acute myocardial ischemia is cardiac troponin I (cTnI). However, its ability to predict short-term and, particularly, midterm outcome after coronary bypass operations is uncertain.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred thirty unselected patients undergoing surgical revascularization had cTnI measured preoperatively and 11 times postoperatively. Receiver operating characteristic curves were constructed using cTnI postoperative peak values in order to assess the prognostic sensitivity and specificity of the test. The cut-off value of 13 ng/mL was used to assess the prognostic significance of the peak cTnI postoperative release for short-term and midterm outcomes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One hundred forty-six patients (63.5%) had postoperative cTnI peak values less than 13 ng/mL (mean peak value, 6.6 +/- 3.1 ng/mL) and 84 patients (36.5%) had postoperative cTnI peak values greater than 13 ng/mL (mean peak value, 45.5 +/- 59.9 ng/mL). Patients with peak cTnI greater than 13 ng/mL were older and had higher preoperative cTnI values. They required both longer cross-clamp time and CPB time. Moreover, hospital death in the cTnI greater than 13 ng/mL group (9.5% versus 0.7%, p = 0.0009) was significantly higher. Multivariate analysis showed that cTnI greater than 13 ng/mL was the only independent predictor of hospital death (odds ratio 10.33, p = 0.04) and hospital death from cardiac causes. A 2-year follow-up demonstrates that cTnI postoperative release had no influence on midterm mortality and hospitalization for due to cardiac illness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cardiac troponin I is a valuable marker for immediate myocardial damage after coronary bypass operations. Its postoperative release does not predict midterm outcome.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiac Surgery, Dipartimento d'Emergenza e Trapianti d'Organo, Universitá di Bari, Bari, Italy. paparella@tin.it
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Paparella
authors.forename: Giangiuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cappabianca
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Visicchio
authors.forename: Antonella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Galeone
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marzovillo
authors.forename: Nunzio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gallo
authors.forename: Cataldo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Memmola
authors.forename: Luigi de Luca Tupputi
authors.initials: Lde L
authors.lastname: Schinosa
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000097:blood*; D019210:Troponin I / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D019210:Troponin I