High-Sensitivity Troponin I after Cardiac Surgery and 30-Day Mortality

P J Devereaux¹, Andre Lamy¹, Matthew T V Chan¹+47

• ¹From McMaster University (P.J.D., A.L., M.H.M., E.P.B.-C., N.D., D.C., P.A.K., M.J.M., J.S., Y.L.M., R.M., S.F.L., S.I.B., S.H., F.K.B., G.H.G., S.Y., R.P.W.), Hamilton Health Sciences (P.J.D., A.L., E.P.B.-C., N.D., D.C., P.A.K., Y.L.M., F.K.B., G.H.G., S.Y., R.P.W.), and the Population Health Research Institute (P.J.D., A.L., M.H.M., E.P.B.-C., D.C., M.J.M., K.B., J.S., Y.L.M., R.M., S.F.L., S.I.B., F.K.B., S.P., J.V., S.Y., R.P.W.), Hamilton, Queen's University, Kingston (R.V.A., J.L.P.), and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto, Toronto (S.C., S.F.) - all in Ontario, Canada; the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (M.T.V.C., M.J.U.), and the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi (H.Z.) - both in China; E. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center (V.V.L., M.A.) and Novosibirsk State University (V.V.L.), Novosibirsk, and the Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases, Kemerovo (D.S.) - all in Russia; IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute (G.L., E.F., F.M.) and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (G.L., F.M.), Milan, the University of Foggia, Foggia (D.P.), and Santa Maria Hospital GVM Care and Research, Bari (D.P., V.M.) - all in Italy; the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (C.Y.W.); Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (G.U., M.M.) and Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau-CIBERESP (G.U.) - both in Barcelona; Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (L.A.H.), and Hospital Moinhos de Vento (C.A.P.), Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (C.A.P.), and Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul (R.S.), Porto Alegre - all in Brazil; Royal Perth Hospital and the University of Western Australia - both in Perth (G.S.H.); the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (N.L.M.), the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool (J.D.M.), and the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton (J.S.B.) - all in the United Kingdom; the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (E.M.); the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson (J.S.A.); and Auckland City Hospital and the University of Auckland - both in Auckland, New Zealand (H.D.W.).