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Articles and journal scans about Cardiac markers
Journal Scan
May 2016
Troponin values in the elderly
Cardiac troponin T (cTnT) is the biomarker of choice for diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes (myocardial infarction (MI) and unstable angina).
The cardiac muscle cell (myocyte) necrosis, consequent on ischemia that characterises MI, results in release of troponins from necrosed cardiac myocytes to blood and rising...
Troponins
Cardiac markers
Journal Scan
July 2013
A protocol for exclusion of myocardial infarction using hs-cTnT
Diagnosis of myocardial infarction in the absence of characteristic electrocardiographic (ECG) changes depends on measurement of circulating cardiac troponin (cTn); either cardiac troponin I (cTnI) or cardiac troponin T (cTnT).
By definition myocardial infarction is associated with increased serum cTnI and cTnT;...
Cardiac markers
Troponins