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. 2013 Dec 1:8:220.
doi: 10.1186/1749-8090-8-220.

Does the revised cardiac risk index predict cardiac complications following elective lung resection?

Robin Wotton, Andrea Marshall, Amy Kerr, Ehab Bishay, Maninder Kalkat, Pala Rajesh, Richard Steyn, Babu Naidu  1 , Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Khalid Hussain
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Does the revised cardiac risk index predict cardiac complications following elective lung resection?

Robin Wotton et al. J Cardiothorac Surg. .

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  • J Cardiothorac Surg. 2013;8:220. Abdelaziz, Mahmoud and Hussain, Khalid [Added]

Abstract

Background: Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) score and Thoracic Revised Cardiac Risk Index (ThRCRI) score were developed to predict the risks of postoperative major cardiac complications in generic surgical population and thoracic surgery respectively. This study aims to determine the accuracy of these scores in predicting the risk of developing cardiac complications including atrial arrhythmias after lung resection surgery in adults.

Methods: We studied 703 patients undergoing lung resection surgery in a tertiary thoracic surgery centre. Observed outcome measures of postoperative cardiac morbidity and mortality were compared against those predicted by risk.

Results: Postoperative major cardiac complications and supraventricular arrhythmias occurred in 4.8% of patients. Both index scores had poor discriminative ability for predicting postoperative cardiac complications with an area under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of 0.59 (95% CI 0.51-0.67) for the RCRI score and 0.57 (95% CI 0.49-0.66) for the ThRCRI score.

Conclusions: In our cohort, RCRI and ThRCRI scores failed to accurately predict the risk of cardiac complications in patients undergoing elective resection of lung cancer. The British Thoracic Society (BTS) recommendation to seek a cardiology referral for all asymptomatic pre-operative lung resection patients with > 3 RCRI risk factors is thus unlikely to be of clinical benefit.

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