PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | septicemia |
| Phenotype | C0018799|cardiac disease |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 23691359 | [9] compared tni and echocardiogram derived left ventricular ejection fraction as biomarkers for underlying sepsis-related myocardial dysfunction in patients with no prior cardiac disease and they found that tni was elevated in 6 out of 10 patients (total study population) whereas myocardial dysfunction was present only in 4 of 6 troponin positive patients on echocardiogram (myocardial dysfunction was defined as lvef < 50%); remaining patients had neither tni elevation nor any evidence of reduced lvef; there was a mortality of 40%, and among nonsurvivors, 50% had normal lvef on echocardiogram and 75% had tni elevation (table 1). |
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