Fig. 3: Postoperative time course and maximum troponin T concentration.

Definition of boxplots: the median is shown as black bar, the box gives 25% and 75% percentiles, the Whiskers are chosen to extend up to 1.5 times the interquartile range from the box. Values outside this range are shown as dots. a Bloxplots are showing the perioperative time course of high-sensitive troponin T within the first 3 days separately for the groups. b The violin plots show the distribution of maximum high-sensitive troponin T concentrations within the first three postoperative days separately for the groups. The p value of the two-sided Wilcoxon-Rank-Sum test to compare treatment with placebo was 0.085.