Outcomes and care of patients with acute heart failure syndromes and cardiac troponin elevation

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 193-202

  Braga, Juarez R ^a   Tu, Jack V ^b,c,e   Austin, Peter C ^b,c   Chong, Alice ^b   You, John J ^b,d   Farkouh, Michael E ^a,e   Ross, Heather J ^a   Lee, Douglas S ^a,b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute; Cardiac troponin; Cardiovascular disease; Coronary artery disease; Coronary revascularization; Heart failure; Hospitalization; Ischemic heart disease; Mortality; Prognosis; Readmission

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEATH; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD; CANADA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNDROME; TIME; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPREGULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; ONTARIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPONIN; UP-REGULATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877275732     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.000075     Document Type: Article

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