Cardiac Troponins for the Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Chronic Kidney Disease

Cardiac Troponins for the Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Chronic Kidney Disease

Background Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at high risk of myocardial infarction. Cardiac troponins are the biomarkers of choice for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) without ST‐segment elevation (NSTE). In patients with CKD, troponin levels are often chronically elev...

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Main Authors: Daniel Kraus, Beatrice von Jeinsen, Stergios Tzikas, Lars Palapies, Tanja Zeller, Christoph Bickel, Georg Fette, Karl J. Lackner, Christiane Drechsler, Johannes T. Neumann, Stephan Baldus, Stefan Blankenberg, Thomas Münzel, Christoph Wanner, Andreas M. Zeiher, Till Keller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-10-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
biomarker
chronic kidney disease
cohort study
decision aids
non‐ST‐segment elevation acute coronary syndrome
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.008032

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