A window into your heart: Taking cardiac troponin to the next level

Biomarkers in Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 889-894

  Hallén, Jonas ^a,b   Atar, Dan ^a,b  

^a AKER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

biomarker guided therapy; cardiac troponin; chronic heart failure; coronary artery disease; diabetes mellitus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN; TROPONIN T;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW;

EID: 78650720295     PISSN: 17520363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/bmm.10.103     Document Type: Review

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