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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019

Troponin Testing for Assessing Sepsis-Induced Myocardial Dysfunction in Patients with Septic Shock.

June-Sung Kim, Muyeol Kim, Youn-Jung Kim, Seung Mok Ryoo, Chang Hwan Sohn, Shin Ahn, Won Young Kim

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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40citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Elevated Cardiac Troponin in Clinical Scenarios Beyond Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

June-Sung KimDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. jsmeet09@gmail.com.
Muyeol KimDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. kurt0217@naver.com.
Youn-Jung KimDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. yjkim.em@gmail.com.
Seung Mok RyooDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. chrisryoo@naver.com.
Chang Hwan SohnDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. schwan97@gmail.com.
Shin AhnDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. ans1023@gmail.com.
Won Young KimDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. wonpia73@naver.com.
Ulsan College · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: Myocardial dysfunction in patients with sepsis is not an uncommon phenomenon, yet reported results are conflicting and there is no objective definition. Measurement of troponin may reflect the state of the heart and may correlate with echocardiographically derived data. This study aimed to evaluate the role of admission and peak troponin-I testing for the identification of sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction (SIMD) by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). (2) Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study using a prospective registry of septic shock at an Emergency Department from January 2011 and April 2017. All 1,776 consecutive adult septic shock patients treated with protocol-driven resuscitation bundle therapy and tested troponin-I were enrolled. SIMD was defined as left ventricular (LV) systolic/diastolic dysfunction, right ventricular (RV) diastolic dysfunction, or global/regional wall motion abnormalities (WMA). (3) Results: Of 660 (38.4%) septic shock patients with an elevated hs-TnI (≥0.04 ng/mL) at admission, 397 patients underwent TTE and 258 cases (65%) showed SIMD (LV systolic dysfunction (

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biomarkercardiomyopathyseptic shocktroponin

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PMID30759844
PMCPMC6406324
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