Elevated cardiac troponin before surgery: perhaps not so benign

Asymptomatic hyperuricemia: perhaps not so benign?

Seizures in the Developing Brain Perhaps Not So Benign after All

ronal activity into the large-scale synchronization charSeizures are one of the most common yet frightening acteristic of seizures. In addition, a shorter period of neurological conditions encountered in humans. While postictal refractoriness in young animals leads to a quick seizures can occur at any age, affecting at least 2% of progression through early stages of kindling and to a the popula...

A Benign Cardiac Growth but Not So Indolent

Cardiac lipomatous hypertrophy is a rare benign condition that usually involves the interatrial septum. Due to its benign nature it rarely requires intervention. Its presence outside the interatrial septum is reported infrequently. We present a case of lipomatous hypertrophy in the intraventricular septum that was complicated by a severe, symptomatic, and disabling dynamic left ventricular outf...

How to interpret elevated cardiac troponin levels.

Cardiac troponin (cTn) testing is an essential component of the diagnostic workup and management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Although over the past 15 years the diagnostic performance of the previous gold-standard assay, creatine kinaseMB, has not changed appreciably, the ever-increasing sensitivity of cTn assays has had a dramatic impact on the use of cTn testing to diagnose ACS.1 Here,...

Troponin Testing After Cardiac Surgery

Single biomarker measurements can predict outcome after cardiac surgery. and may assist in decision making about diagnostic and therapeutic steps following surgery. Although comparative data are relatively lacking some data exist to suggest that among markers of myocardial necrosis, results from cardiac troponin (cTn) measurement may be superior for risk prediction after cardiac surgery to thos...