Nyame YA, et al. - In patients undergoing major urologic surgeries, researchers ascertained if positive troponin is a predictor of intermediate and long-term mortality. In these patients, for cause serum troponin blood draw and peak levels showed a positive correlation with all-cause mortality. Compared to patients with negative troponin and no troponin drawn, a significantly decreased overall survival at 5 years of 70.6% was seen in the patients with positive troponin drawn for cause within 30-days of surgery.