Cardiac troponin T as a predictor of short- and long-term mortality in community-acquired pneumonia

Charles Feldman^{1

2}, Ronald Anderson³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa.
³ Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

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Charles Feldman et al. Respirology. 2017 Jul.

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. 2017 Jul;22(5):845-846.

doi: 10.1111/resp.13020. Epub 2017 Mar 10.

Charles Feldman^{1

2}, Ronald Anderson³

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa.
³ Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

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Keywords: biomarker; cardiac troponin T; community-acquired pneumonia; mortality.

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High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T predicts mortality after hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia.
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