EuroSCORE predicts immediate and late outcome after coronary artery bypass surgery.

Background: The European system for cardiac operative risk evaluation score (EuroSCORE) has been shown to be of value in identifying patients at high risk for adverse immediate postoperative outcome after adult cardiac surgery. The aim of the present study was to evaluate EuroSCORE in predicting the 12-year outcome of patients who underwent on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG).

Methods: We calculated the EuroSCORE in 917 patients who underwent CABG.

Preoperative C-reactive protein is predictive of long-term outcome after coronary artery bypass surgery.

Background: Increased levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are associated with the presence and severity of atherosclerosis, and with increased risk of coronary events as well as of cardiac events after coronary percutaneous intervention.

Methods: We have investigated whether preoperative CRP had an impact on the long-term outcome of 843 patients who underwent on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG).

Results: Among operative survivors, patients with preoperative CRP < 1.