How many ways can a troponin assay come up with a false positive or a false negative? In this episode of AP Cardiology, Andrew Perry, MD, tallies it up with Robert Christenson, PhD, of the University ...

A new point-of-care troponin assay can safely rule out acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in just 15 minutes in a large proportion of patients with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome, ...

Clinicians should be aware that the discordance between high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) assays is significant enough that management recommendations may change, for example, for a patient ...

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin testing can identify patients with stable coronary artery disease who have a greater risk for MI or cardiovascular death, a study conducted in Scotland indicates.

The three high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) assays currently available in the United States often disagree when it comes to standard analytical benchmarks, which could have an impact on how ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cardiac troponin assays have been used clinically for approximately 30 years by cardiologists and other health ...

In a recent study published in the journal BMJ, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom evaluated the use of a high-sensitivity assay to measure cardiac troponin I and its impact on myocardial ...

In this interview, News-Medical talks to Dr. Dana Fletcher, Martin Berner, and Robin Pettini from Siemens Healthineers about the connection between high-sensitivity troponin and heart attacks. What is ...

BERLIN, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Research presented this week at the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry Congress and Laboratory Medicine showed that using a lower diagnostic threshold ...

Transitioning high-sensitivity troponin testing protocols in the emergency department for suspected acute coronary syndrome can have some unintended consequences, studies showed. In a prospective ...

The current lower limit for detection of plasma troponin T in most commercially available tests is approximately 0.01 μg/l, and levels higher than this value are associated with increased mortality.