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What echocardiographic parameters correlate with high-sensitivity troponin-T elevation and predict mortality in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock?
What echocardiographic parameters correlate with high-sensitivity troponin-T elevation and predict mortality in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock?
In severe sepsis and septic shock, troponin elevation is primarily associated with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and right ventricular dilatation, which also explain its association with mortality.
Suggests echo may refine mortality risk stratification in septic shock; leaves open whether targeting these parameters improves outcomes.
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Landesberg et al. (2013) studied this question.
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