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

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 263-264

  Yalamanchili, Kiran ^b   Sukhija, Rishi ^b   Aronow, Wilbert S ^a   Sinha, Neeraj ^b   Fleisher, Arlen G ^b   Lehrman, Stuart G ^b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HEART; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0347593907     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.09.058     Document Type: Article

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