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eComment: Does EuroSCORE predict postoperative complications?

Bakoulev Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, Roublevskoye Sh. 135, 121552 Moscow, Russia

EuroSCORE predicts postoperative mortality, certain morbidities, and recovery time

We congratulate Hirose et al. for presenting the relationship between EuroSCORE and postoperative complications in patients who underwent isolated on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting [1].

We would like to comment the the author’s article with our experience. When we started the investigation, the 1000 consecutive cases of adult open heart valve surgery took place over a three-year period. Logistic EuroSCORE was applied to predict operative mortality. Postoperative mortality, morbidity and postoperative length of stay were analyzed. EuroSCORE had an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) of 0.639 for prediction of hospital death, the correlation coefficient (r) was 0.177 and P<0.05. Moreover, EuroSCORE was correlated with postoperative complications: the area under the ROC was 0.668, the correlation coefficient was 0.224. Our finding revealed that EuroSCORE could predict not only mortality but also potential complications after open heart valve surgery. It was noteworthy, that the length of stay did not correlate with EuroSCORE (r=0.08). So, our results also suggested that EuroSCORE was a good predictor for postoperative complications [1, 2].

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1. Hirose H, Inaba H, Noguchi C, Tambara K, Yamamoto T, Yamasaki M, Kikuchi K, Amano A. EuroSCORE predicts postoperative mortality, certain morbidities and recovery time. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2009;9:613–617.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
2. Toumpoulis IK, Anagnostopoulos CE, Swistel DG, DeRose JJ Jr. Does EuroSCORE predict length of stay and specific postoperative complications after cardiac surgery? Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;27:128–133.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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