European journal of clinical investigation
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Eur. J. Clin. Invest. · Jun 2020
High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T 30 days all-come mortality in patients with acute heart failure. A Propensity Score-Matching Analysis Based on the EAHFE Registry. TROPICA4 Study.
Acute heart failure (AHF) patients with high troponin levels have a worse prognosis. High-sensitive troponin T (hs-TnT) has been used as a tool to stratify prognosis in many scales but always as a qualitative and not as a quantitative variable. ⋯ An hs-TnT value of 35 ng/L is an adequate cut-off to evaluate the prediction of 30-day all-cause mortality with a NPV of 95.3%.