Prevalence of increased cardiac troponin I levels in patients with and without acute pulmonary embolism and relation of increased cardiac troponin I levels with in-hospital mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
Cardiac troponin I levels were increased in 24 of 147 patients (16%) with documented acute pulmonary embolism and in 20 of 594 patients (3%) without pulmonary embolism (p <0.001). In patients with acute pulmonary embolisms, 8 of 24 (33%) with increased cardiac troponin I levels and 9 of 123 (7%) with normal cardiac troponin I levels died during hospitalization (p <0.001).
Yalamanchili
Kiran
K
Department of Medicine, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA.
Sukhija
Rishi
R
Aronow
Wilbert S
WS
Sinha
Neeraj
N
Fleisher
Arlen G
AG
Lehrman
Stuart G
SG
D000208:Acute Disease; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D015995:Prevalence; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed; D019210:Troponin I / Q000097:blood*; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
D019210:Troponin I