Cardiac Troponin Testing for Detection of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Utility and Analytical Issues
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Assessment of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), including chest pain, is often a diagnostic challenge to physicians. Biochemical markers of myocardial injury have become routine in assisting clinicians in confirming the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in both patients with and without a diagnostic electrocardiogram (EKG; refs. 1 –3 ).
