High‐Sensitivity Troponin: A Clinical Blood Biomarker for Staging Cardiomyopathy in Fabry Disease

High‐Sensitivity Troponin: A Clinical Blood Biomarker for Staging Cardiomyopathy in Fabry Disease

BackgroundHigh‐sensitivity troponin (hs‐TNT), a biomarker of myocardial damage, might be useful for assessing fibrosis in Fabry cardiomyopathy. We performed a prospective analysis of hs‐TNT as a biomarker for myocardial changes in Fabry patients and a retrospective longitudinal follow‐up study to as...

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Main Authors: Nora Seydelmann, Dan Liu, Johannes Krämer, Christiane Drechsler, Kai Hu, Peter Nordbeck, Andreas Schneider, Stefan Störk, Bart Bijnens, Georg Ertl, Christoph Wanner, Frank Weidemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-06-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
biomarker
cardiomyopathy
fabry disease
myocardial fibrosis
troponin T
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.115.002839

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