Short term prognosis of patients with acute coronary syndromes: The level of cardiac troponin T elevation corresponding to the "old" WHO definition of myocardial infarction

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 373-374

  Knight, Charles J ^a   Keeble, T R ^a   Wilson, S ^b   Cooper, J ^c   Deaner, A ^d   Ranjadayalan, K ^b   Timmis, A D ^a  

^a LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d HAVERING AND REDBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; Q WAVE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYNDROME DELINEATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; LETTER; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; SYNDROME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; SYNDROME; TROPONIN T;

EID: 14244253820     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.031351     Document Type: Article

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