Myocardial Injury in Critically Ill Children: A Case Control Study

Table 1

Demographic, clinical, and laboratory data of studied population.

Variable	Cases (𝑛=50)	Controls (𝑛=25)	𝑃 value
Age (months), median (IQL)	20 (9–28)	19 (9–29)	0.676
Gender, 𝑛 (M/F)	29/21	13/12	0.622
Diagnosis
Bronchiolitis	12	NA	NA
Bacterial lower RTI	6
Sepsis	9
CNS diseases	8
Major abdominal surgery	3
Hepatic diseases	5
Others	7
Mechanical ventilation, 𝑛
Non ventilated/ventilated	24/26	NA	NA
Duration of MV (day), median (IQL)	5 (4–6)	NA	NA
PIM II score, median (IQL)	11.8 (2.4–33.7)	NA	NA
Fractional shortening (%), median (IQL)	28 (26–34)	38 (34–41)	<0.05*
cTnT (pg/mL), median (IQL)	22 (18–28)	10 (10-10)	<0.05*
Outcome, 𝑛
Survivors/nonsurvivors	34/16	NA	NA

IQR: interquartile range; NA: not available; MV: mechanical ventilation; PIM: pediatric index of mortality; cTnT: cardiac troponin T; *significant.