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Volume 129, Issue 2 , Pages 300-306 , February 2005

Increased creatine kinase MB level predicts postoperative mortality after cardiac surgery independent of new Q waves

James Ramsay, MD
- Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Ga
Stanton Shernan, MD
- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
Jane Fitch, MD
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Okla
Paul Finnegan, MD
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Cheshire, Conn
Thomas Todaro, MD, JD
- Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Mason, Ohio
Thomas Filloon, PhD
- Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Mason, Ohio
Nancy A. Nussmeier, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, Texas Heart Institute at Saint Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Tex
- Address for reprints: Nancy A. Nussmeier, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, Texas Heart Institute at Saint Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX 77030

Received 11 February 2004 ,Revised 3 June 2004 ,Accepted 8 June 2004.

Relationship between AUC for postoperative CK-MB release (hours * nanograms per milliliter) and peak postoperative CK-MB level (nanograms per milliliter).

Relationship between AUC for postoperative CK-MB release (hours * nanograms per milliliter) and peak postoperative CK-MB level (nanograms per milliliter).
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Distribution of peak postoperative CK-MB levels (nanograms per milliliter).

Distribution of peak postoperative CK-MB levels (nanograms per milliliter).
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