Increased blood troponin levels in ICU patients

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 454-463

  Markou, Nikolaos ^a   Gregorakos, Leonidas ^b   Myrianthefs, Pavlos ^b  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

critical illness; diastolic dysfunction; myocardial infarction; prognosis; sepsis; systolic dysfunction; troponin

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 8; TROPONIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORTALITY; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STROKE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SEPSIS; TROPONIN;

EID: 80052701208     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e3283491f0d     Document Type: Review

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