Long-term outcomes of perioperative myocardial infarction/injury after non-cardiac surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Perioperative myocardial infarction/injury (PMI) following non-cardiac surgery is a frequent cardiac complication. Better understanding of the underlying aetiologies and outcomes is urgently needed.

Methods and results

Aetiologies of PMIs detected within an active surveillance and response programme were centrally adjudicated by two independent physicians based on all information obtained during clinically indicated PMI work-up including cardiac imaging among consecutive high-risk patients undergoing major non-cardiac surgery in a prospective multicentre study. PMI aetiologies were hierarchically classified into 'extra-cardiac' if caused by a primarily extra-cardiac disease such as severe sepsis or pulmonary embolism; and 'cardiac', further subtyped into type 1 myocardi

SUBMITTER: Puelacher C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10263270 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature