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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2008 Feb;33(2):215–221. doi: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2007.11.008

Figure 2. Myocardial injury after OPCAB in the aprotinin vs. control groups.

Figure 2

Myocardial injury was measured by analyzing the trancardiac gradient of myoglobin at 30 minutes following the completion of OPCAB and by comparing the area under the concentration-time curve of cardiac troponin I (cTn-I) levels measured at 6, 24 and 72 hours. While transcardiac myoglobin release was significantly reduced in the aprotinin vs. control group, cTn-I was not significantly different.