Category: Negative Outcomes

High sensitivity troponin and COVID-19 outcomes

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Authors: Nikolaos Papageorgiou,a,bCatrin Sohrabi,aDavid Prieto Merino,c,dAngelos Tyrlis,aAbed Elfattah Atieh,aBunny Saberwal,aWei-Yao Lim,aAntonio Creta,aMohammed Khanji,aReni Rusinova,aBashistraj Chooneea,aRaj Khiani,d,eNadeev Wijesuriya,e,fAnna Chow,e,fHaroun Butt,e,fStefan Browne,e,fNikhil Joshi,e,fJamie Kay,e,fSyed Ahsan,a and Rui Providenciaa,g Abstract Background Recent reports have demonstrated high troponin levels in patients affected with COVID-19. In the present study, we aimed to determine the association between admission and peak troponin levels and […]

Clinical utility of cardiac troponin measurement in COVID-19 infection

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Authors: David C Gaze 1 2 Abstract The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causes the disease COVID-19, a severe acute respiratory syndrome. COVID-19 is now a global pandemic and public health emergency due to rapid human-to-human transmission. The impact is far-reaching, with enforced social distancing and isolation, detrimental effects on individual physical activity and mental wellbeing, education in the […]

Cardiac Troponin-I and COVID-19: A Prognostic Tool for In-Hospital Mortality

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Authors: Baher Al Abbasi 1, Pedro Torres 1, Fergie Ramos-Tuarez 2, Nakeya Dewaswala 1, Ahmed Abdallah 1, Kai Chen 1, Mohamed Abdul Qader 1, Riya Job 1, Samar Aboulenain 1, Karolina Dziadkowiec 1, Huzefa Bhopalwala 3, Jesus E Pino 2, Robert D Chait 2 Abstract Background: The number of fatalities due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is escalating with more than 800,000 deaths globally. The scientific community remains in urgent need of prognostic tools to determine the probability of survival in […]