Troponin I Level and Mortality in Acute Abdominal Surgery

Nordsjaellands Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Myocardial Injury After Non-cardiac Surgery

Abdomen, Acute

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: Troponin I

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05933837

P-2020-507

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this prospective cohort study is to estimate the incidence of myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) in patients undergoing acute high-risk abdominal surgery.

MINS is defined as at least one increased single measurement of plasma troponin I (TnI). TnI-dynamic is defined as either two succeeding measurements of TnI > 59 ng/l with an increase/fall of more than 20%, or by one measurements of TnI > 59 ng/l with a succeeding measurement of TnI < 59 ng/l and a decrease of more than 50%.

Participants will have plasma TnI measured 6-12 hours postoperatively and on each of the following four postoperative days. Follow-up will be minimum one year after surgery.

The aim of the study is to determine:

The incidence of MINS within the first four postoperative days
The incidence of dynamic TnI changes
The association between MINS and dynamic TnI changes respectively and all-course short-term mortality

Full description

Gastrointestinal tract perforation, bowel ischemia and bowel obstruction are considered acute high-risk abdominal disorders, often requiring emergency surgery. Myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) is a frequent but often unrecognized postoperative complication. MINS is associated with an increased risk of other cardiac complications and 30-day mortality. However, the literature on MINS is mainly regarding patients undergoing a wide range of elective or acute surgical procedures, and we do not know if the dynamic TnI-criteria used for acute myocardial injury has any association with mortality in patients with MINS.

This study aims to estimate the incidence of MINS in patients undergoing AHA surgery, and the association between the short-term mortality and MINS defined as a single increased measurement of TnI and as TnI dynamics respectively.

Enrollment

341 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

18 years or older
Patients undergoing acute high-risk abdominal surgery

Exclusion criteria

Patients with microscopic perforations in colonic diverticulitis managed with laparoscopic lavage or drainage
If further treatment postoperatively was assessed as futile and terminated immediately after surgery