NT-proBNP as a Tool for the Detection of Acute Pulmonary Artery Embolism (APE)

University of Ulm

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pulmonary Embolism; Pulmonary Embolism Without Mention of Acute Cor Pulmonale

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01633671

ana-ulm-ntprobnp-288/11

Details and patient eligibility

About

In patients with suspected APE (Acute Pulmonary Embolism) referred to the intensive care unit (ICU)after major surgery, serum NT-proBNP (N-terminal proBNP), Troponin-I and D-dimers were measured according to the standard hospital protocol. To definitively confirm or exclude APE, all patients underwent an angiographic CT-scan of the thorax.

Full description

In patients with suspected APE referred to the intensive care unit after major surgery, serum NT-proBNP, Troponin-I and D-dimers were measured according to the standard hospital protocol. Blood samples were obtained within one hour after the onset of clinical symptoms.

Definitive confirmation or exclusion of APE was performed with an angiographic CT-scan of the thorax.

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

all patients referred to the ICU with suspected APE

Exclusion criteria

none

Trial design

44 participants in 1 patient group

Suspected APE

Description:

Post-surgical patients with clinically suspected acute pulmonary embolism