Direct Comparison of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T and I for Prediction of Mortality in Patients with Pneumonia

Thomas Nestelberger¹, Christian Mueller^1,6, Tobias Breidthardt^1,2, Danielle M Gualandro¹, Eleni Michou¹, Rafal Czmok¹, Bettina Glatz¹, Luca Koechlin^1,5, Tobias Zimmermann^1,2, Jasper Boeddinghaus¹, Dayana Flores¹, Jeanne Du Fay De Lavallaz¹, Zaid Sabti¹, Jasmin Martin^1,2, Patrick Badertscher^1,4, Julia Dinort¹, Albina Nowak^1,3, Nikola Kozhuharov¹, Desiree Wussler^1,2 and Joan Walter^1*

¹Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

²Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

³Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

⁴Division of Cardiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States

⁵Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

⁶GREAT-Network, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

^*Corresponding Author: Joan Walter, Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland Email: