Elevated troponin but no CVD: What's the prognosis?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Mantzouris, Tammy ^a   Gauer, Robert ^b   Mackler, Leslie ^c  

^a General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital   (United States)

^b WOMACK ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Moses H Cone Memorial Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROTRECOGIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; NOTE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TRANSPLANTATION; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; META ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; REVIEW;

BACTEREMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TROPONIN T; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885130640     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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