Troponin elevation is usually synonymous with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Although sensitive for ACS, the elevation of serum troponin, in the absence of clinical evidence of ischemia, should prompt a search for other etiologies of myocardial necrosis. In fact, elevated values of troponin are correlated with myocardial necrosis even though it does not discriminate the mechanism involved. We r...

Progression of chemotherapy may prolong overall survival in advanced cancer, and prediction drug-induced myocardial injury is important for continuing treatment. In particular, anthracycline drugs can cause irreversible cardiac dysfunction. Thus, predictive biomarkers cardiotoxicity are needed. We retrospectively reviewed patients who were treated with our hospital between January 2017 June 202...

INTRODUCTION Cardiac biomarkers have a prominent role in the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. AIM The aim of the authors was to study the diagnostic effectiveness of automated measurement of cardiac biomarkers. METHOD Myeloperoxidase, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, myoglobin, heart-type fatty acid binding protein, creatine kinase, creatine kinase MB, high-sensitivity troponin...

foot and mouth disease (fmd) is a highly contagious viral disease of cloven-hooved livestock and wildlife results to relatively high mortality in young animals. despite the numerous reports of fmd-related death in neonates, there is little data available on various aspects of fmd in lambs. this report describes myocarditis associated with fmd in five, one week to three months old lambs. the lam...

background: increased serum high sensitive c-reactive protein (hs-crp) in asthma and its association with disease severity has been investigated in many studies. this study aimed to determine serum hs-crp status in asthma versus healthy controls and to examine its ability in predicting asthma control. methods: serum crp was measured by elisa method using a high sensitive crp kit. severity of as...

Controversy exists as to the clinical roles and relative specificities of cardiac troponin T or I in patients with unstable angina pectoris (UAP). We measured troponin T and I levels on admission in 123 patients with UAP. Of the 107 patients with normal creatine kinase during the first 24 hours, troponin T and I were elevated in 14 and 13 patients, respectively. At 30 days, 5 of 14 patients (36...