Positive troponin-T in noncompaction is associated with neuromuscular disorders and poor outcome

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-113

  Finsterer, Josef ^a   Stöllberger, Claudia ^b   Krugluger, Walter ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b Second Medical Department   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial ischemia; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TROPONIN T;

EID: 33846902626     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-006-0467-7     Document Type: Article

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