Highly sensitive troponin assays and the cardiology community: A love/hate relationship?

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 826-829

  De Lemos, James A ^a   Morrow, David A ^b   DeFilippi, Christopher R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

EID: 79957711793     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2011.163758     Document Type: Note

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