Heart failure patients who undergo cardiac surgery are exposed to significant perioperative
complications and high mortality. We herein review the literature concerning preoperative …

Right ventricular failure (RVF) is a major risk factor for end organ morbidity and mortality
following cardiac surgery. Perioperative RVF is difficult to predict and detect, and to date, no …

OBJECTIVES Our goal was to validate the Swedish Cardiac Surgery Registry by reviewing
the reported cardiac operations to assess the completeness and quality of the registered …

Aims We aimed to investigate the independent and combined association of the triglyceride‐
glucose (TyG) index and EuroSCORE II with major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) …

Objective Acute kidney injury is common after cardiac surgery and associated with
postoperative mortality. Perioperative cardiac biomarkers may predict acute kidney injury …

Highlights•The current risk scores may underestimate surgical risk in higher-risk patients
who underwent cardiac surgery.•Preoperative natriuretic peptides predict adverse outcomes …

Objective Postoperative heart failure (PHF) after aortic valve replacement (AVR) for aortic
stenosis (AS) may initially appear mild and transient but has serious long-term …

Background Low-cardiac output syndrome (LCOS) after cardiac surgery secondary to
systemic hypoperfusion is associated with a higher incidence of renal and neurological …

Background Secretoneurin (SN) concentrations provide important prognostic information in
patients with myocardial dysfunction. Whether preoperative SN concentrations improve risk …

Abstract Background European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II
(EuroSCORE II) is used for risk stratification before cardiac surgery, but whether N-terminal …