High-sensitivity assays for troponin in patients with cardiac disease

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 472-483

  Westermann, Dirk ^a,b   Neumann, Johannes Tobias ^a,b   Sörensen, Nils Arne ^a   Blankenberg, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE WITH REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MYOCARDITIS; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERICARDITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; HEART INFARCTION; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOMARKERS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPONIN;

EID: 85017141553     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2017.48     Document Type: Review

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