Background Raised cardiac troponin-I is a common finding in patients hospitalised with acute viral infections, including but not limited to COVID-19. This often occurs in the absence of overt ...

Will troponin-I elevate in circumstances other than heart conditions? I have encountered several patients without previous heart disease whose troponin I level was elevated (around 5-10 mg/dL) acutely ...

Jerusalem, Israel - Troponin elevations in hospitalized patients are frequently not associated with an acute coronary syndrome—they can, in fact, occur within a broad range of other clinical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Elevated troponin levels were found to be related to poorer in-hospital and postdischarge outcomes in patients ...

Even when cardiac troponin levels detected by high-sensitivity assays are within the normal range, elevations are associated with incident cardiovascular events in people without overt disease, a meta ...

A new study is raising questions about how to best diagnose periprocedural myocardial infarction (MI) after elective stent placement. To detect event frequencies and predict 1-year mortality risk at ...

Rising troponin levels after exercise can help identify those at risk of cardiovascular disease or early death; the findings do not mean exercise is harmful. While exercise provides a variety of ...

Among patients with diabetes mellitus and ischaemic heart disease, high-sensitivity testing effectively identified 39.3% of patients with elevated troponin levels who were at high 5-year risk of ...

Donor cardiac troponin I level is not associated with intermediate-term mortality, cardiac allograft vasculopathy or primary graft failure in patients receiving heart transplants, US researchers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A perioperative rise in the level of Troponin T, a cardiac enzyme, demonstrated a strong association with ...

Exercising is healthy, but it also puts strain on the heart. During physical exertion, the protein troponin is released—a biomarker indicative of cardiac damage. New research from Radboudumc involving ...