High-sensitivity troponin T and C-reactive protein to identify patients without cardiac structural and functional abnormalities as assessed by cardiac CT and SPECT imaging: Can biomarkers predict cardiac health?

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 865-873

  Schlett, Christopher L ^a   Truong, Quynh A ^a   Ahmed, Waleed ^a   Blankstein, Ron ^b   Ferencik, Maros ^a   Uthamalingam, Shanmugam ^a   Bamberg, Fabian ^c   Koenig, Wolfgang ^d   Januzzi, James L ^a   Hoffmann, Udo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac computed tomography; Cardiovascular health; High sensitivity C reactive protein; High sensitivity troponin T; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TROPONIN T; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THORAX PAIN; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BOSTON; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TROPONIN T;

EID: 84877923593     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-012-0164-8     Document Type: Article

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