Chest Pain With Significantly Elevated Troponins: Be Wary of False Positives

Taarunya T. Narayanan • Tamara Naneishvili • William Moody • John Townend • Peter Ludman, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.77018  Abstract High-sensitivity cardiac troponins are considered a gold standard for diagnosing acute myocardial infarction and myocardial injury. However, the occurrence of false…[...]

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High sensitivity troponin and COVID-19 outcomes

Authors: Nikolaos Papageorgiou,a,bCatrin Sohrabi,aDavid Prieto Merino,c,dAngelos Tyrlis,aAbed Elfattah Atieh,aBunny Saberwal,aWei-Yao Lim,aAntonio Creta,aMohammed Khanji,aReni Rusinova,aBashistraj Chooneea,aRaj Khiani,d,eNadeev Wijesuriya,e,fAnna Chow,e,fHaroun Butt,e,fStefan Browne,e,fNikhil Joshi,e,fJamie Kay,e,fSyed Ahsan,a and Rui Providenciaa,g Abstract Background Recent reports have demonstrated…[...]

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Cardiac Troponin-I and COVID-19: A Prognostic Tool for In-Hospital Mortality

Authors: Baher Al Abbasi 1, Pedro Torres 1, Fergie Ramos-Tuarez 2, Nakeya Dewaswala 1, Ahmed Abdallah 1, Kai Chen 1, Mohamed Abdul Qader 1, Riya Job 1, Samar Aboulenain 1, Karolina Dziadkowiec 1, Huzefa Bhopalwala 3, Jesus E Pino 2, Robert D Chait 2 Abstract Background: The number of fatalities due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)…[...]

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Can we predict the severe course of COVID-19 – a systematic review and meta-analysis of indicators of clinical outcome?

Authors: Stephan Katzenschlager ,Alexandra J. Zimmer ,Claudius Gottschalk, Jürgen Grafeneder,Stephani Schmitz, Sara Kraker, Marlene Ganslmeier, Amelie Muth, Alexander Seitel, Lena Maier-Hein, Andrea Benedetti, Jan Larmann, Markus A. Weigand, Sean McGrath , Claudia M.…[...]

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