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. 2020 Nov 10;9(11):3623.
doi: 10.3390/jcm9113623.

Troponin Elevation in Older Patients with Acute Pneumonia: Frequency and Prognostic Value

Alain Putot  1   2 , Emmanuel Bouhey  3 , Jennifer Tetu  4 , Jérémy Barben  1 , Eléonore Timsit  3 , Sophie Putot  1 , Patrick Ray  3 , Patrick Manckoundia  1
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Troponin Elevation in Older Patients with Acute Pneumonia: Frequency and Prognostic Value

Alain Putot et al. J Clin Med. .

Abstract

Cardiovascular (CV) events are particularly frequent after acute pneumonia (AP) in the elderly. We aimed to assess whether cardiac troponin I, a specific biomarker of myocardial injury, independently predicts CV events and death after AP in older inpatients. Among 214 consecutive patients with AP aged ≥75 years admitted to a university hospital, 171 with a cardiac troponin I sample in the 72 h following diagnosis of AP were included, and 71 (42%) were found to have myocardial injury (troponin > 100 ng/L). Patients with and without myocardial injury were similar in terms of age, gender and comorbidities, but those with myocardial injury had more severe clinical presentation (median (interquartile range) Pneumonia Severity Index: 60 (40-95) vs. 45 (30-70), p = 0.003). Myocardial injury was strongly associated with in-hospital myocardial infarction (25% vs. 0%, p < 0.001), CV mortality (11 vs. 1%, p = 0.003) and all-cause mortality (34 vs. 13%, p = 0.002). After adjustment for confounders, myocardial injury remained a strong predictive factor of in-hospital mortality (odds ratio (95% confidence interval): 3.32 (1.42-7.73), p = 0.005) but not one-year mortality (1.61 (0.77-3.35), p = 0.2). Cardiac troponin I elevation, a specific biomarker of myocardial injury, was found in nearly half of an unselected cohort of older inpatients with AP and was associated with a threefold risk of in-hospital death.

Keywords: aged; mortality; myocardial infarction; myocardial injury; pneumonia; troponin.

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