Cardiac troponins in the intensive care unit: Common causes of increased levels and interpretation

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 584-588

  Fromm Jr , Robert E ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VISICU   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac troponin; Critical care; Diagnostic markers; Myocardial injury

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERICARDITIS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEPSIS; STROKE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33846451042     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000254349.10953.BE     Document Type: Article

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