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Conclusion
Bernard R.B.K. Schockaert, René van Bruchem, Robert Jan Stolker, Mario Stark, Sanne E. Hoeks, and Felix van Lier · about 1 minutes
In this single-centre cohort of 954 high-risk noncardiac surgical patients with postoperative hs-cTnT >50 ng L−1, myocardial injury was more often attributed to extra-cardiac than cardiac mechanisms, which were associated with higher in-hospital mortality. Future work should focus on the prognostic value of postoperative troponin elevation as a marker of perioperative risk across differing aetiologies.