High sensitivity troponin and COVID-19 outcomes

Chest pain and high troponin level without significant respiratory symptoms in young patients with COVID-19

Background: Of all patients infected with COVID-19, 95% have mild symptoms, but 5% may experience severe illness. There are reports of myocardial injury associated with the COVID19 infection in middle aged and old people with baseline cardiac conditions. Acute myocardial injury has been suggested as a marker for disease severity. Sometimes it is hard to differentiate between acute coronary synd...

COVID-19 and its Outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Background: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious disease that resulted in 4533645 deaths until September first, 2021. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients receive immunosuppressive drugs. Thus, there is a concern that these drugs will reduce the patient’s immune system resistance against COVID19. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the epidemiology of COVID19 and its ...

High sensitivity cardiac troponin testing.

Bösner and colleagues have presented evidence for a simple rule for ruling out coronary artery disease in the primary care setting. It is noteworthy that no laboratory measurements have been included in their model, with reference to their introductory statement that “ ... electrocardiography and cardiac troponin test are of limited value in primary care... ” This point deserves some discussion...

High‐Sensitivity Troponin I Levels and Coronary Artery Disease Severity, Progression, and Long‐Term Outcomes

BACKGROUND The associations between high-sensitivity troponin I (hsTnI) levels and coronary artery disease (CAD) severity and progression remain unclear. We investigated whether there is an association between hsTnI and angiographic severity and progression of CAD and whether the predictive value of hsTnI level for incident cardiovascular outcomes is independent of CAD severity. METHODS AND R...

High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T and Risk of Hypertension Running title: McEvoy et al.; High-sensitivity Troponin and Hypertension