Patients with infective endocarditis and increased cardiac troponin I levels have a higher incidence of in-hospital mortality and valve replacement than those with normal cardiac troponin I levels

Cardiology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 202-204

  Tsenovoy, Peter ^a   Aronow, Wilbert S ^a   Joseph, Julie ^a   Kopacz, Magdaline S ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood cultures; Infection; Infective endocarditis; Transesophageal echocardiography; Valves; Valvular vegetations

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN; TROPONIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VALVULAR VEGETATION;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TROPONIN I;

EID: 48449094349     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000149573     Document Type: Article

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