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Incidence and 1-year outcome of periprocedural myocardial infarction following cardiac surgery: are the Universal Definition and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention criteria fit for purpose?

Jonathan HintonMaclyn AugustineLavinia GabaraMark MariathasRick AllanFlorina BorcaZoe NicholasJohn IkwuobeNeil GillettChun Shing KwokPaul CookMichael P W GrocottMamas Andreas MamasNick Curzen
Published in: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (2022)
The incidence of SCAI PPMI in a real-world cohort of cardiac surgery patients is so high as to be of limited clinical value. In contrast, a diagnosis of UDMI PPMI post-CABG is independently associated with 1-year mortality, so may have clinical (and research) utility.
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