Additional file 1 of Warm blood versus St. Thomas cold crystalloid cardioplegia in patients affected by acute coronary syndromes undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery

Supplementary Material 1. Supplementary Table. Baseline and preoperative variables between the three groups of patients affected by acute coronary syndromes. UA unstable angina, NSTEMI non ST- elevation myocardial infarction, STEMI ST-elevation myocardial infarction, BMI body mass index, PCI percutaneous coronary intervention; LMD left main disease, LVEF left ventricular ejection fraction, LVESD left ventricular end-systolic diameter, LVEDD left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, SPAP systolic pulmonary artery pressure, CK-MB muscle-brain creatine-kinase enzyme, c-TnI cardiac troponin I enzyme. NS not significant, for all measurements. * P-values significant for NSTEMI group vs UA group, and for STEMI group vs UA group; # P-value significant for NSTEMI group vs UA group, and ┼ P-value significant for STEMI group vs UA group.