Common causes of troponin elevations in the absence of acute myocardial infarction: Incidence and clinical significance

Chest

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1877-1884

  Roongsritong, Chanwit ^a,b   Warraich, Irfan ^b   Bradley, Charles ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False positive; Heart failure; Pericarditis; Pulmonary embolism; Sepsis; Troponin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FIBRIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TROPONIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; COR PULMONALE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS;

EID: 2442438574     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.125.5.1877     Document Type: Review

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