Letter by Kavsak and MacRae regarding article, "Utility of absolute and relative changes in cardiac troponin concentrations in the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction"

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Kavsak, Peter A ^a   MacRae, Andrew R ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

EID: 84857601915     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.057885     Document Type: Letter

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