Cardiac troponin I: the gold standard in acute myocardial infarction diagnosis

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  • Sabaheta Hasić Institute for Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
  • Emina Kiseljaković Institute for Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
  • Radivoj Jadrić Institute for Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
  • Jovan Radovanović Institute for Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
  • Mira Winterhalter-Jadrić Institute for Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine

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https://doi.org/10.17305/bjbms.2003.3527

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cardiac troponin I, acute myocardial infarction, diagnosis, gold standard

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases are leading cause of morbidity in the world. Measurement of the level of biochemical markers in the serum is one of World Health Organisation (WHO) criteria in diagnosing acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Non-specific clinical state of patients and insufficiently sensitive electrocardiographic (ECG) diagnostics, at patient's hospital admission time, point out the importance of biochemical markers in acute myocardial infarction diagnosis. Technology development and new diagnostic methods lead to the invention of highly sensitive and specific marker as myocardialdamage evidence. Cardiac Troponin I (cTnI) is specific marker for myocardial damage1. Its elevation in the serum within myocardial ischemia symptomatology is important in diagnosis of myocardial infarction.

 
Cardiac troponin I: the gold standard in acute myocardial infarction diagnosis

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20-08-2003

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Cardiac troponin I: the gold standard in acute myocardial infarction diagnosis. Biomol Biomed [Internet]. 2003 Aug. 20 [cited 2024 Mar. 29];3(3):41-4. Available from: https://www.bjbms.org/ojs/index.php/bjbms/article/view/3527