Improvement in risk prediction for patients with atrial fibrillation and intermediate-risk CHA₂DS₂-VASc score utilizing highly sensitive cardiac troponin T

• Christian Salbach ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Salbach, Mustafa Yildirim

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1799-545X

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• Mustafa Yildirim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Salbach, Mustafa Yildirim

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Barbara Ruth Milles,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4602-5489

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• Hauke Hund,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Matthias Mueller-Hennessen,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Norbert Frey,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Hugo Katus,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Evangelos Giannitsis

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: evangelos.giannitsis@med.uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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