Cardiac troponin T in the severity assessment of patients with pulmonary embolism: cohort study

摘要: Right ventricular function is an important prognostic factor for pulmonary embolism.1 Massive embolism may lead to right failure, reduced left output, and even death.2 Cardiac troponins are routinely applied markers of minor major myocardial damage in patients with acute coronary syndromes. In small case series, troponin concentrations were raised massive embolism. 3 4 The role as a is, however, unclear. We assessed the association between serum cardiac T severity well predictor mortality. We 136 consecutive who admitted emergency department tertiary care university hospital December 1999 November 2001 embolism, confirmed by computed tomography or scintigraphy. Two terminal illness seven after arrest …