A simple score for rapid risk assessment of non-high-risk pulmonary embolism.

Objective: We tested whether bedside testing for H-FABP is, alone or integrated in combination models, useful for rapid risk stratification of non-high-risk PE.

Methods: We prospectively studied 136 normotensive patients with confirmed PE. H-FABP was determined using a qualitative bedside-test showing a positive result for plasma concentration >7 ng/ml.

Highly sensitive troponin T assay in normotensive patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

Aims: To assess the role of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) levels on admission using a new, highly sensitive assay (hsTnT) in the risk assessment of normotensive patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE).

Methods And Results: We prospectively studied 156 consecutive normotensive patients with confirmed PE. The prognostic value of hsTnT at baseline was compared with the conventional cTnT troponin assay and with N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide concentrations.