High sensitivity troponin in chest pain and acute coronary syndromes. A step forward?
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Conflict of interest: Dr Jaffe presently receives research support and/or consults from Beckman Coulter, Critical Diagnostics, Inverness Medical, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Pfizer, Siemens Medical, and Tethys Bioscience. Dr Ordonez-Llanos presently receives support for research from Abbott Diagnostics, Inverness Medical, Roche Diagnostics and Siemens Medical among the companies which products are mentioned in the article.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Revista espanola de cardiologia
دوره 63 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010