Why the study?
What are the echocardiographic and clinical predictors of elevated hs-cTnT in patients with ischemic versus non-ischemic heart failure?
Population
60 consecutive patients with stable congestive heart failure, NYHA class I-II, LVEF < 40%, mean age 56.3 ±…
Design
Cohort
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Etiology may dictate optimal echo marker for hs-cTnT elevation in HF; leaves open prospective validation before clinical use.
What are the echocardiographic and clinical predictors of elevated hs-cTnT in patients with ischemic versus non-ischemic heart failure?
Echocardiographic predictors of myocardial injury (hs-cTnT) differ by heart failure etiology, with E/Em lateral predicting injury in ischemic HF and LV-GLS predicting injury in non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy.
Bakal et al. (2013) studied this question.
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