BACKGROUND In ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), troponins are not needed for diagnosis: symptoms and ECG data are sufficient to activate percutaneous coronary intervention. This study explored the prognostic value of new-generation troponins in a real-life cohort contemporarily treated for STEMI. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 1260 consecutive patients with primary STEMI tre...

A.S. J. has been consultant to many companies dealing with diagnostics. High-sensitive cardiac troponin T measurements in prediction of non-cardiac complications after major abdominal surgery. Association of cardiac troponin, CK-MB, and postoperative myocardial ischemia with long-term survival after major vascular surgery. Use of clinically based troponin underestimates the cardiac injury in no...

Skeletal-muscle troponin I and troponin T were found to be rapidly phosphorylated by cardiac phospholipid-sensitive Ca2+-dependent protein kinase, with Km values of 6.66 and 0.13 microM respectively. Stoichiometric phosphorylation of skeletal troponin I (endogenous phosphate content 0.7 mol/mol) indicated that the Ca2+-dependent enzyme and cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase incorporated 0.9 an...

Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a single bout of high-intensity interval exercise (HIIE) on high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) release and to explore the potential influencing factors. Methods Twenty-one experienced marathon runners completed HIIE on treadmill. Each bout of HIIE included a hard run (15.8 ± 1.3 km·h-1) at 90% vVO2max for 2 min f...

The development of highly sensitive assays for cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) and cardiac troponin I (hscTnI) represents the latest technological advance in a field that has witnessed continual progression toward more sensitive and more precise tools for detecting cardiac injury. The hs-cTnT assay, for example, can detect cTnT concentrations 10-fold lower than the current fourth-generation assay,...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction relies upon the clinical history, interpretation of the electrocardiogram, and measurement of serum levels of cardiac enzymes. Newer biochemical markers of myocardial injury, such as cardiac troponin I and cardiac troponin T, are now being used instead of or along with the standard markers, the MB isoenzyme of creatine kinase (CK-MB) and lacta...

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was defined based on clinical findings, ECG abnormalities and cardiac enzymes. However with sensitive marker such as troponin the definition has been refined. In this study two cut-off values of troponin T (0.03ng/mL and 0.1ng/mL) were compared with the final diagnosis of AMI made by the physician. This was a retrospective study to determine the efficiency of c...

With the introduction of high-sensitive assays, cardiac troponins became potential biomarkers for risk stratification and prognostic medicine. Observational studies have reported an inverse association between physical activity and basal cardiac troponin levels. However, causality has never been demonstrated. This study investigated whether basal cardiac troponin concentrations are receptive to...

This study investigated the effects of three sport-specific high-intensity training units on cardiac biomarker alteration in elite athletes of dragon boating. Thirty six male (age 33 ± 9) and twenty nine female (age 31 ± 8) elite athletes, members of the German national team, were examined in their final training camp preparing for world championship. At two time points blood panels (pre-traini...