High-sensitivity cardiac troponin thresholds used to diagnose MI and injury after cardiac surgery may need to be considerably higher than those currently recommended, a new study suggests.

For that oldest group, age-adjusted 99th percentile thresholds improved specificity to 91.3% at the cost of a major loss in sensitivity (down from 81.6% to 55.9%) for an overall positive ...

A risk-assessment tool, which we developed to integrate the high-sensitivity troponin I or troponin T concentration at emergency department presentation, its dynamic change during serial sampling ...

Among these patients, 13,316 patients (97.5%) had a peak troponin measurement of more than 260 ng per liter (>10 times the upper reference limit), 12,217 patients (89.4%) had a peak troponin ...

Cardiac troponin was high in 1085 (just under 5.5%) patients. Some 1782 (9%) patients died after a year, and a total of 2825 (14%) had died just over 2 years (809 days) later.

An increased concentration of cardiac troponin (a regulatory protein) in the blood after prolonged walking is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death. This ...

Elevated troponin linked to mental stress ischemia in heart disease patients Higher baseline levels of heart muscle damage marker Date: April 3, 2016 Source: Emory Health Sciences Summary: People ...

Reference Aengevaeren VL, Hopman MTE, Thompson PD, et al. Exercise-induced cardiac troponin increase and incident mortality and cardiovascular events [published online August 12, 2019].

A trip to the emergency room involved many tests, but nothing turned up except a troponin level well over 0.04 ng/mL, which prompted an angiogram that didn’t reveal any problems with my heart.