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Volume 138, Issue 4 , Pages 954-958 , October 2009

Preoperative C-reactive protein levels to predict early and late mortalities after coronary artery bypass surgery: Eight years of follow-up

Albert H.M. van Straten, MD
- Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Catharina Hospital–Brabant Medical School, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Mohamed A. Soliman Hamad, MD
- Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Catharina Hospital–Brabant Medical School, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Address for reprints: Mohamad A. Soliman Hamad, MD, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Catharina Hospital, Michelangelolaan 2, Postbus 1350, 5602 ZA Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
André J. van Zundert, MD, PhD, FRCA
- Department of Anesthesiology, Catharina Hospital–Brabant Medical School, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Elisabeth J. Martens, PhD
- Department of Education and Research, Catharina Hospital–Brabant Medical School, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic Diseases, Department of Medical Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Jacques P.A.M. Schönberger, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Catharina Hospital–Brabant Medical School, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Andre M. de Wolf, MD, PhD
- Department of Anesthesiology, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill

Received 10 December 2008 ,Revised 23 March 2009 ,Accepted 29 March 2009.

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