Cardiac biomarker levels strongly predict outcome of bypass surgery
Friday, September 4, 2009 - 18:27
in Health & Medicine
Levels of a biomarker used in the diagnosis of heart attacks are almost universally elevated in patients who have undergone coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) and, when markedly elevated, are powerfully prognostic, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Heart Center has found.