• QJM · May 2005

    Case Reports

    Pitfalls and problems of relying on serum troponin.

    • C E Burness, D Beacock, and K S Channer.
    • Department of Cardiology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
    • QJM. 2005 May 1;98(5):365-71.

    AbstractCardiac troponin (cT) is released after myocardial damage. In the appropriate clinical setting, a measured elevation of cT can increase the diagnostic rate of myocardial infarction and acute coronary syndrome. Elevations of cT, however, can occur in a wide variety of other clinical situations. Failure to recognize this can lead to an over-diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI). We present clinical cases from our institution that illustrate this diagnostic problem, and review similar cases in the literature. We also discuss the implications of an erroneous diagnosis of myocardial infarction, for the patient and for the health services.

      Pubmed     Free full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…