Growing pains with the use of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 1250-1251

  Wu, Alan H B ^a   Bolger, Ann F ^a   Hollander, Judd E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; ADAPT; APACE; chest pain; high sensitivity troponin I; TIMI

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEATH; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LABORATORY TEST; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NOTE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 84884559055     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.02.075     Document Type: Editorial

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