Predictive Power of Elevated Preoperative HbA1c Levels for Postoperative
Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Undergoing Isolated Coronary Artery
Bypass Surgery - Many Questions to be Asked and Many Answers to be
Given.
Abstract
The authors performed a detailed retrospective analysis of diabetic
patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG)
aiming to investigate the association of the preoperative Glycosylated
hemoglobin with occurance of postoperative atrial fibrillation. Altough
statistical analysis showed a weak relationship between HbA1c values of
9.06% or above and PoAF, they concluded that serum level of HbA1c could
not be used as a predictor for the development of PoAF. But there are
many questions to be asked and answers to be found.