Evaluation of Incidence, Clinical Significance, and Prognostic Value of Circulating Cardiac Troponin I and T Elevation in Hemodynamically Stable Patients with Suspected Myocardial Contusion after Blunt Chest Trauma

Bertinchant, Jean-Pierre; Polge, Anne; Mohty, Dania; Nguyen-Ngoc-Lam, Richard; Estorc, J; Cohendy, R; Joubert, P; Poupard, P; Fabbro-Péray, Pascale; oise Monpeyroux, Fran; Poirey, Sophie; Ledermann, Bertrand; Raczka, Franck; Brunet, J??r??me; Nigond, J; de La Coussaye, Jean-Emmanuel

doi:10.1097/00005373-200005000-00018

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Evaluation of Incidence, Clinical Significance, and Prognostic Value of Circulating Cardiac Troponin I and T Elevation in Hemodynamically Stable Patients with Suspected Myocardial Contusion after Blunt Chest Trauma

Published in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care • May 1, 2000

Authors:

Jean-Pierre Bertinchant

Anne Polge

Dania Mohty

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The frequency and prognostic influence of myocardial injury in patients with blunt chest trauma is controversial. We investigated the value of cardiac troponin I (cTn-I) and cardiac troponin T (cTn-T), highly specific markers of myocardial injury, to determine whether their measurement w...

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Medicine

Cardiology

Internal medicine

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