ESC Joint Working Groups on Cardiovascular Surgery and the Cellular Biology of the Heart Position Paper: Peri-operative myocardial injury and infarction in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West-German Heart and Vascular Center, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45122, Essen, Germany; Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA; The Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, University College London, 67 Chenies Mews, London WC1E 6HX, UK; Scottish National Advanced Heart Failure Service, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Agamemnon Street, G81 4DY, Clydebank, UK; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Queen’s University, 99 University Avenue, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada; Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus Medical Center,’sGravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, Holland; Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Hugstetterstrasse 55, Freiburg, D-79106, Germany; Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Semmelweis University, € Ull} oi ut 26, H 1085 Budapest, Hungary; Pharmahungary Group, Szeged, Graphisoft Park, 7 Z ahony street, Budapest, H-1031, Hungary; Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstr. 55, 45122 Essen, Germany; Institute for Pathophysiology, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University of Essen Medical School, Hufelandstr. 55, 45122 Essen, Germany; University Clinic of Cardiac Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Christoph-Probst-Platz 1, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Department of Anaesthetics, King’s College Hospital and King’s College London, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS, UK; Internal Medicine II, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, W€ahringer Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Department of Cardiac Surgery, The Salam Center for Cardiac Surgery, Soba Hilla, Khartoum, Sudan, Italy; Center of Aging Sciences and Translational Medicine— CESI-Met and Institute of Cardiology, Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences “G. D”’Annunzio University, Via dei Vestini, 66100 Chieti, Italy; The Center