Postoperative high-sensitivity troponin T predicts 1-year mortality and days alive and out of hospital after orthotopic heart transplantation

Abstract Background Orthotopic heart transplantation (HTX) is the gold standard to treat end-stage heart failure. Numerous risk stratification tools have been developed in the past years. However, their clinical utility is limited by their poor discriminative ability. High sensitivity troponin T (hs...

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Main Authors: René M’Pembele, Sebastian Roth, Anthony Nucaro, Alexandra Stroda, Theresa Tenge, Giovanna Lurati Buse, Florian Bönner, Daniel Scheiber, Christina Ballázs, Igor Tudorache, Hug Aubin, Artur Lichtenberg, Ragnar Huhn, Udo Boeken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-01-01
Series:European Journal of Medical Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40001-022-00978-4