Serum tau and neurological outcome in cardiac arrest.
Niklas Mattsson-CarlgrenHenrik ZetterbergNiklas NielsenKaj BlennowJosef DankiewiczHans FribergGisela LiljaPhilip S InselChristian RylanderPascal StammetAnders AnemanChristian HassagerJesper KjaergaardMichael KuiperTommaso PellisJørn WetterslevMatthew WiseTobias CronbergPublished in: Annals of neurology (2017)
Serum tau is a promising novel biomarker for prediction of neurological outcome in patients with cardiac arrest. It may be significantly better than serum NSE, which is recommended in guidelines and currently used in clinical practice in several countries to predict outcome after cardiac arrest. Ann Neurol 2017;82:665-675.