We are glad to share with you a good news that the article titled “Early cardiology assessment and intervention reduces mortality following myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS)” authored by Hua A, Pattenden H, Leung M, et al. has been cited as best practice in the very prestigious and authoritative AHA/ACC 2024 guidelines for perioperative management for non-cardiac surgery: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001285; https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.08.018.
“…early referral for cardiology consultation after a diagnosis of MINS to be associated with a significant reduction in early death”8
8. Hua A, Pattenden H, Leung M, et al. Early cardiology assessment and intervention reduces mortality following myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS). J Thorac Dis. 2016;8:920–924.
Meanwhile, till Oct. 9, 2024, the article has been cited for 36 times according to google scholar, receiving 4145 pageviews and being downloaded for 1485 times.
Learn more about the authors of the article:
Frist author: Alina Hua
Dr Alina Hua is a Cardiology Specialist Registrar in London. She graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine. She was previously a Cardiology NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and a BHF Clinical Research Fellow Her. research interest is in the application of novel 3D free-breathing whole-heart cardiovascular MRI (CMR) sequences. She also has an interest in myocarditis and cardiovascular involvement in autoimmune rheumatic disease.
Corresponding author: Eric Lim
Professor Eric Lim is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College London. He received his undergraduate medical education at the University of Sheffield Medical School. His specialist heart and lung surgical training was at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge and the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. He spent time in medical research in Cambridge where he was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine and in research methods London where he received his Masters of Science in Medical Statistics funded by a UK Medical Research Council Scholarship.
Professor Lim is a sub-specialist in Thoracic Surgery with specific expertise in lung and other chest cancers. His technical expertise is minimally invasive (keyhole) surgery for lung cancer, pleural effusion, pneumothorax and other chest cancers, as well as complex surgery for advanced lung cancer involving airway and blood vessel reconstruction (to save as much normal lung as possible).
He is the national chair for thoracic academia with an active interest in clinical trials serving as Chief Investigator for UK wide National Institute of Healthcare Research funded multicentre trials of surgery for mesothelioma (MARS 2), VATS lobectomy (VIOLET) and local consolidative treatment for advanced lung cancer (RAMON).
His research has led to over 100 peer review publications, he has authored two award winning textbooks (Medicine and Surgery, Churchill’s Pocketbook of Differential Diagnosis) and 6 book chapters. Professor Lim chaired the British Thoracic Society and Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery’s Guidelines on the Management of Lung Cancer in 2010, contributed to the European Society of Medical Oncology Early Stage Lung Cancer Guidelines in 2013 and European Neuroendocrine Tumours Management of Bronchopulmonary Carcinoids Guidelines in 2014.
He also the Chair of the UK Thoracic Surgery Research Collaborative and served as a Councillor of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, a member of the Steering Committee of the British Thoracic Oncology Group, an Associate Editor of Thorax and the Deputy Statistics Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
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