Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Point-of-care troponin measurement by ambulance paramedics to rule out non-ST-elevation ACS in low-risk patients ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—A transdermal sensor worn on the wrist for less than 15 minutes may be useful in detecting elevated levels of troponin I without requiring a blood draw in patients with ACS, novel ...

Lead author P.J. Devereaux, MD (Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Canada), told TCTMD that the guidelines regarding troponin thresholds after surgery were influenced by use of creatine ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Due to overreliance on high-sensitivity biomarkers alone, misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis of heart attack have ...

Use of a machine learning model that incorporates information from a single troponin test as well as other clinical data was superior to current practice as an aid to the diagnosis of myocardial ...

In The Netherlands, ambulances transport around 200,000 people with chest pain to Emergency Departments (ED) every year. However, up to 90 percent of these people don’t have an acute coronary syndrome ...

After being anesthetized and undergoing major surgery, up to one in five patients have increased levels of the protein troponin in their blood. This can be a sign of heart damage. Researchers at ...

Prehospital measurement of the biomarker copeptin may allow quicker rule-out of myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with chest pain, a new study suggests. The AROMI study was presented at the ...