Association between postoperative haemoglobin concentrations and composite of non-fatal myocardial infarction and all-cause mortality in noncardiac surgical patients: post hoc analysis of the POISE-2 trial

  • Alparslan Turan*
  • , Eva Rivas
  • , Philip J. Devereaux
  • , Mauro Bravo
  • , Guangmei Mao
  • , Barak Cohen
  • , Kamal Maheshwari
  • , Xuan Pu
  • , Kurt Ruetzler
  • , Kai Li
  • , Daniel I. Sessler
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Background: Myocardial infarction is the most common postoperative major vascular complication. Perioperative anaemia may contribute to cardiac supply–demand mismatch, and therefore myocardial injury. We therefore tested the hypothesis that the lowest in-hospital postoperative haemoglobin concentration is associated with a composite of non-fatal myocardial infarction and all-cause mortality within the first 30 days after noncardiac surgery. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients enrolled in the PeriOperative Ischemic Evaluation-2 (POISE-2) trial. We assessed the association between the lowest postoperative haemoglobin concentration during the initial hospitalisation and a composite of non-fatal myocardial infarction (Third Universal Definition) and all-cause mortality within 30 postoperative days, using a multivariable logistic regression model. Results: We analysed 7227 patients from POISE-2, of whom 7.8% developed myocardial infarction; 1.5% died within 30 days. The composite primary outcome of non-fatal myocardial infarction and all-cause mortality occurred in 8.9% patients overall, ranging from 16% in patients with postoperative haemoglobin concentrations <88 g L−1 to 4.1% in patients with postoperative haemoglobin >113 g L−1. After adjusting for baseline factors, in patients with a lowest postoperative haemoglobin concentration <110 g L−1, each 10 g L−1 reduction in the lowest postoperative haemoglobin concentration was associated with a 1.46 (95% confidence interval: 1.37–1.56; P<0.001) fold increase in the odds of the composite outcome. In contrast, there was no significant relationship amongst patients with lowest postoperative haemoglobin concentration >110 g L−1. Conclusions: Postoperative anaemia may be a modifiable risk factor for non-fatal myocardial infarction and all-cause mortality.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)87-93
Number of pages7
JournalBritish Journal of Anaesthesia
Volume126
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2021

Funding

FundersFunder number
American Physicians Fellowship for Medicine in Israel
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Instituto de Salud Carlos IIIBA18/00048

    Keywords

    • anaemia
    • anaesthesia
    • cardiovascular risk
    • haemoglobin
    • myocardial infarction
    • postoperative outcomes risk
    • surgery

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