Background Acute myocarditis is a potentially life-threatening cardiac condition and immediate assessment of this disease is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Troponin kinetics can be used to detect hemorrhagic MI after PCI for STEMI. Hemorrhagic MI is linked to elevated ...

In an unselected group of patients who underwent a blood test at a hospital for any reason, an elevated cardiac troponin I concentration was associated with a higher mortality risk through more than 2 ...

Lead author P.J. Devereaux, MD (Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Canada), told TCTMD that the guidelines regarding troponin thresholds after surgery were influenced by use of creatine ...

A high level of troponin - a protein normally used to exclude the possibility of a heart attack in patients with chest pain - may signal a heightened risk of death from any cause within the next ...

Relying on the sex-specific 99th percentile upper reference limit of cardiac troponin may incorrectly suggest myocardial infarction (MI) in older adults with suspected heart attacks, though no ...

A new study examined the potential value of serial high-sensitivity troponin testing in a cohort of more than 6000 patients with ACS. Absolute increases in hsTn values of ≥7 ng/L were associated with ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - New ultra-sensitive blood tests can rapidly detect when heart muscle is dying from a heart attack, even from the moment the patient arrives in the emergency room, according to two ...

What is a troponin test? The additional test was a troponin test, a blood test that measures levels of troponin proteins released into the bloodstream when the heart muscle is damaged. It is ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) model trained to detect blocked coronary arteries based on electrocardiogram (ECG) readings performed better than expert clinicians and was on par with troponin T ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Hospitalized COVID-19 patients with high troponin levels are twice as likely to have cardiac ...

Intense light therapy after surgery can increase a critical protein that protects heart tissue while lowering levels of ...