A review of causes and systemic approach to cardiac troponin elevation

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 723-728

  Patil, Harshal ^a   Vaidya, Omkar ^a   Bogart, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MYOCARDITIS; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STENT THROMBOSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TROPONIN;

EID: 82955163195     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20983     Document Type: Review

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