Measuring high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) at presentation and after 1 hour not only identifies chest pain patients in the emergency department (ED) who are having an acute myocardial ...

Higher concentrations of high-sensitivity troponin I (hsTnI), even those within the normal range, are associated with a heightened near-term risk for death, acute myocardial infarction (MI), and ...

Using clinical assessment and an ECG on top of a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin test may add little in the way of prognostic benefit as compared with the assay alone, at least for predicting 30-day ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adding clinical judgment and ECG results to the European Society of Cardiology high-sensitivity cardiac troponin ...

Guidelines on the evaluation and diagnosis of stable chest pain put out last year by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) may have endorsed the use of ...

Patients with chest pain are recognized as being at high risk of subsequent adverse cardiac events when their plasma levels of cardiac troponin are elevated as evidence of myocardial damage. Based on ...

Angina happens when one of the heart’s blood vessels is blocked and temporarily deprives the heart muscle of blood and oxygen, causing chest pain. If you feel like someone is squeezing your heart when ...

Both angina and a heart attack can feel the same, causing chest pain due to reduced blood flow to the heart. However, with angina, the pain is caused by a brief interruption of blood flow, often ...