It has been known for 50 years that transaminase activity increases in patients with acute
myocardial infarction. With the development of creatine kinase (CK), biomarkers of cardiac …

Circulating biomarkers have become increasingly important in diagnosing and risk
stratifying patients with heart failure (HF). While the natriuretic peptides have received much …

Background In patients with acute coronary syndromes, it is desirable to identify a sensitive
serum marker that is closely related to the degree of myocardial damage, provides …

Troponin complex is a component of skeletal and cardiac muscle thin filaments. It consists of
three subunits—troponin I, T, and C, and it plays a crucial role in muscle activity, connecting …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is immunoreactive
cardiac troponin T (cTnT) expression in diseased skeletal muscle that might cause possible …

Patients with renal insufficiency may have increased serum troponins even in the absence of
clinically suspected acute myocardial ischemia. While cardiovascular disease is the most …

Cardiac troponins are sensitive and specific markers of myocardial injury. The troponin
concentration can be thought of as a quantitative measure of the degree of injury sustained …

Background—The prognostic usefulness of troponin enzymes in end-stage renal disease
(ESRD) patients is controversial. To resolve this uncertainty of troponin as a prognostic tool …

The diagnosis of myocardial infarc-tion has conventionally relied on the presence of chest
pain or typical ST segment and T wave abnormalities on the 12 lead electrocardiogram …

Background Spontaneous progression of severe congestive heart failure is structurally
characterized by cellular degeneration and multiple foci of myocardial cell death. The …