Prognostic value of troponin I levels for predicting adverse cardiovascular outcomes in postmenopausal women undergoing cardiac surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adverse cardiac events that follow cardiac surgery are an important source of perioperative morbidity and mortality for women. Troponin I provides a sensitive measure of cardiac injury, but the levels after cardiac surgery may vary between sexes. Our purpose in this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of troponin I levels for predicting cardiovascular complications in postmenopausal women undergoing cardiac surgery.

Methods

The cohort of this study were women enrolled in a previously reported clinical trial evaluating the neuroprotective potential of 17beta-estradiol in elderly women. In that study, 175 postmenopausal women not receiving estrogen replacement therapy and scheduled to undergo coronary artery bypass graft (with or without valve surgery) were p

SUBMITTER: Stearns JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5516212 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature