What is the role of serial high-sensitivity troponin measurements in chronic heart failure?

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1079-1081

  Gaggin, Hanna K ^a   Januzzi, James L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR A; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863561645     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2012.183244     Document Type: Short Survey

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