Volume 128, Issue 5, Pages 3526-3536 (November 2005) Prognostic Value of Preoperative Cardiac Troponin I in Patients With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Matthias Thielmann, MD, Parwis Massoudy, MD PhD, Markus Neuhäuser, PhD, Stephan Knipp, MD, Markus Kamler, MD, Jarowit Piotrowski, MD, Klaus Mann, MD PhD, Heinz Jakob, MD PhD CHEST Volume 128, Issue 5, Pages 3526-3536 (November 2005) DOI: 10.1016/S0012-3692(15)52926-7 Copyright © 2005 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Distribution of preoperative cTnI serum levels of the groups before CABG indicated by histograms; line indicates normal curve of distribution. CHEST 2005 128, 3526-3536DOI: (10.1016/S0012-3692(15)52926-7) Copyright © 2005 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
FIGURE 2 Death and MACE during hospital stay stratified by preoperative cTnI serum levels; p values are overall significance between groups calculated by one-sided Cochran-Armitage trend test. CHEST 2005 128, 3526-3536DOI: (10.1016/S0012-3692(15)52926-7) Copyright © 2005 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
FIGURE 3 ROC curve analysis of the discriminatory power of preoperative cTnI levels for (top,A) in-hospital mortality and (bottom,B) the composite adverse outcomes of death and MACE. CHEST 2005 128, 3526-3536DOI: (10.1016/S0012-3692(15)52926-7) Copyright © 2005 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions