Utility of absolute and relative changes in cardiac troponin concentrations in the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction

Circulation

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 136-145

  Reichlin, Tobias ^a   Irfan, Affan ^a   Twerenbold, Raphael ^a   Reiter, Miriam ^a   Hochholzer, Willibald ^a   Burkhalter, Hanna ^a   Bassetti, Stefano ^b   Steuer, Stephan ^c   Winkler, Katrin ^d   Peter, Federico ^a,d   Meissner, Julia ^a   Haaf, Philip ^a   Potocki, Mihael ^a   Drexler, Beatrice ^a   Osswald, Stefan ^a   Mueller, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Kantonsspital Olten ^*  (Switzerland)

^c Limmattalspital Zürich   (Switzerland)

^d INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; chest pain diagnosis; high sensitive cardiac troponin assay; troponin

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CARDIAC TROPONIN I ULTRA; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HIGH SENSITIVE CARDIAC TROPONIN T; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; TROPONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOLOGIST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

EID: 79960431247     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.023937     Document Type: Article

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