Myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery and per operative fibrin metabolism in patients undergoing hip-fracture surgery: an observational study

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Myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) is associated with a 2-3-fold increased risk of subsequent major cardiovascular events and postoperative mortality. The pathological mechanism behind MINS is not fully uncovered. We hypothesized that patients with MINS following hip fracture surgery would have an altered haemostatic balance pre- and postoperative compared with patients without MINS. This was investigated in a prospective single-centre observational study including patients consecutively. The outcomes were changes in thrombin generation, fibrinogen/fibrin turnover, tissue plasminogen activator, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and fibrin structure measurements in patients developing MINS and patients who did not. Outcomes were measured preoperatively and two hours postoperatively. Seventy-two patients were included whereof 26 (36%) patients developed MINS. D-dimer delta values were significantly higher in patients developing MINS than in patients who did not (p = 0.01). After adjusting for age, sex, smoking, alcohol abuse, atrial fibrillation, anticoagulant medication preoperative CRP, preoperative creatinine and duration of surgery, the association remained significant (p = 0.04). There were no significant changes in thrombin generation, in markers of fibrinogen/fibrin turnover besides D-dimer, or in fibrin structure measurements pre- and postoperatively between patients with and without MINS. As such, a relationship between the coagulative and fibrinolytic activity and MINS cannot be ruled out in patients with MINS after hip fracture surgery.Registration: The study was an observational sub-study to a multicentre randomised clinical trial registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02344797).

OriginalsprogEngelsk
BogserieScandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
Vol/bind83
Udgave nummer5
Sider (fra-til)299-308
Antal sider10
ISSN0036-5513
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
The following institutions and fonds supported the execution of this study: The University of Copenhagen, Axel Muusfeldts Fond, Snedkermester Sophus Jacobsen og Hustru Anna Jacobsens Fond, Oda og Hans Svenningsens Fond, Frimodt-Heineke Fonden, Toyota Foundation and Beckett-Fonden. They had no influence on the design of the study, the data collection, data analysis, or the interpretation of data. Nor did they influence the writing of the manuscript. The authors would like to acknowledge the work of Johannes Jakobsen Sidelmann overseeing the laboratory analyses and assisting in interpretation of the data.

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