TY - BOOK AU - Dina Abdelmonsef Abdelkhalek AU - Gamal Hamed , AU - Sanaa Abd El Shafee , AU - Yasser Nassar , TI - Biomarkers of cardiac injury as a prognostic indicator in ARDS / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Dina Abdelmonsef Abdelkhalek , KW - NT-proBNP KW - Troponin 1 KW - Troponin T N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Critical Care Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - To evaluate levels of NT pro-BNP, Troponin 1 and troponin T in ARDS patients with structurally normal hearts and to detect the association between these markers with 30 day mortality and other respiratory parameters and scoring systems. Patients and Methods: 20 patients diagnosed to have ARDS according to the criteria of the American-European consensus conference in 1994 admitted from 1 June 2008 until 1 April 2009 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -