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

Kiran Yalamanchili; Rishi Sukhija; Wilbert S Aronow; Neeraj Sinha; Arlen G Fleisher; Stuart G Lehrman

doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.09.058

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

Am J Cardiol. 2004 Jan 15;93(2):263-4. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.09.058.

Authors

Kiran Yalamanchili¹, Rishi Sukhija, Wilbert S Aronow, Neeraj Sinha, Arlen G Fleisher, Stuart G Lehrman

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA.

PMID: 14715366
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.09.058

Abstract

Cardiac troponin I levels were increased in 24 of 147 patients (16%) with documented acute pulmonary embolism and in 20 of 594 patients (3%) without pulmonary embolism (p <0.001). In patients with acute pulmonary embolisms, 8 of 24 (33%) with increased cardiac troponin I levels and 9 of 123 (7%) with normal cardiac troponin I levels died during hospitalization (p <0.001).

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Case-Control Studies
Echocardiography
Female
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Immunoenzyme Techniques
Male
Middle Aged
Predictive Value of Tests
Prevalence
Pulmonary Embolism / blood*
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnosis
Pulmonary Embolism / mortality*
Retrospective Studies
Sensitivity and Specificity
Tomography, Spiral Computed
Troponin I / blood*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / diagnostic imaging

Substances

Troponin I