It's all in our skin-Skin autofluorescence-A promising outcome predictor in cardiac surgery: A single centre cohort study.
Britt HofmannKristin Anja GerullKatja BlochMarcus RiemerChristian ErbsAnna FröhlichSissy RichterMartin EhrhardtChristopher ZitterbartFriederike Fee BartelPauline SiegelAndreas WienkeRolf-Edgar SilberAndreas SimmPublished in: PloS one (2020)
This finding suggests that skin autofluorescence is a good biomarker candidate to assess the perioperative risk of patients in cardiac surgery. Since the EuroSCORE does not contain a morbidity component, in our view further sAF measurement is an option.