Troponin refers to three different proteins that help regulate the contractions of the heart and skeletal muscles. Normal troponin levels range from 0 to 0.04 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml). The ...

PARIS — Patients presenting with suspected acute coronary syndrome have similarly low rates of death or myocardial infarction (MI) within 30 days when triaged with a 0/1-hour high-sensitivity cardiac ...

The upper limit of normal for high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) testing may not be a good indicator of who is having an acute MI in the absence of symptoms or history. In a British study of ...

Rising troponin levels after exercise can help identify those at risk of cardiovascular disease or early death; the findings do not mean exercise is harmful. While exercise provides a variety of ...

For patients with suspected ACS and no clear signs of ischemia on ECG, use of a 0/1-hour high-sensitivity troponin T testing protocol in which all test results were available to treating physicians ...

June 11, 2007 -- A class 1 recall has been announced for a cardiac immunoassay ( Architect STAT Troponin-1, Abbott Laboratories, Inc) due to the potential risk for inaccurate test results at very low ...

About 20% of adults who have major non-cardiac surgery had elevated troponin levels, yet nearly all of them did not have symptoms of injury, according to a new scientific statement from the American ...