Troponin
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The Role of High Sensitivity Troponin Pathways in the Emergency Department
Authors: Akilesh Honasoge, MD MA; Robert Brown, MD; Sharleen Yuan, MD PhD MAEditors: Kami M. Hu, MD FAAEM and Kelly Maurelus, MD FAAEMOriginally Published: Common Sense May/June 2019 Clinical Question:Can high sensitivity troponin meaningfully contribute to an acute coronary syndrome evaluation? Introduction:Traditional 4th-generation troponin assays are part of the standard cardiac evaluation when there is […] -
Expanding the Differential: What Else Can an Elevated Troponin Signify?
Author: Shyam Sivasankar, MDStanford-Kaiser Emergency Medicine Originally Published: Modern Resident, December-January 2015 We often underestimate the utility of modern laboratory technology—we become shortsighted and we forget that a lab value can tell us more than what we are naturally used to it representing. One such lab value is cardiac troponin. Instinctively, we assume that an […]
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