A man suffering from a possible heart attack had to wait 5 hours for an ambulance at an Atchison County hospital.

Sparrow announced Tuesday that it is the first health system in Michigan to begin testing patients for measles and analyzing ...

Elevated troponin levels identified individuals at risk of microvascular obstruction and mortality after myocardial ...

Dallas. TX - Cardiac troponin T is very rarely elevated in the general population free of cardiovascular disease, a new study has shown [1]. The study, published in the April 25, 2006 issue of ...

The researchers compared their new highly sensitive troponin I assay (hsTnI) to tests for other biomarkers, and found at hospital admission, the test had an 82.3 percent accuracy in diagnosing a ...

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 ...

When used with the understanding that not all elevations are indicative of myocardial infarction, cardiac troponin testing can play an important role as the medical community responds to the ongoing ...

Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Health System observed that a single troponin test at ED admission for patients with suspected ACS may be enough to rule out acute MI and reduce hospital stay ...

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays may eventually play a part in an overall strategy for evaluating patients who present with stable chest pain symptoms and possible coronary disease, an ...

Using age-specific thresholds for troponin measurement would more accurately diagnose myocardial injury when assessing patients for suspected myocardial infarction (MI), a new study suggests. The ...

When she would come, they would end up checking troponin and it would be elevated. In this setting, I learned about how there can be false-positive troponins and interference in the troponin assays.