Cardiac troponins in patients with renal failure: What are we measuring and when should we measure it?

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 269-270

  Collinson, Paul O ^a   Gaze, David C ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; RENAL DIALYSIS; TROPONIN T;

EID: 67650829232     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 00045632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/acb.2009.009058     Document Type: Editorial

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