High-sensitive troponin T measurements: What do we gain and what are the challenges?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 579-586

  Twerenbold, Raphael ^a   Jaffe, Allan ^b   Reichlin, Tobias ^a   Reiter, Miriam ^a   Mueller, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Diagnosis; High sensitive cardiac troponin; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN T;

ACCURACY; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

EID: 84857937071     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehr492     Document Type: Review

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