Serial cardiac troponin differences measured on four contemporary analyzers: Relative differences, actual differences and reference change values compared

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 413, Issue 21-23, 2012, Pages 1786-1791

  Pretorius, Carel J ^a   Wilgen, Urs ^a   Ungerer, Jacobus P J ^a  

^a Pathology Queensland ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Cardiac troponin; Myocardial infarction; Reference change value; Serial difference

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REFERENCE VALUE;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REFERENCE VALUES; TROPONIN;

EID: 84864446947     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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