For assessing myocardial injury following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), troponin I is overly sensitive and fails to distinguish procedure-related myocardial infarction (MI) from minor ...

Definitions for what constitutes elevation of creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) vary widely among centers. Setting absolute rather than relative thresholds may help pinpoint clinically relevant levels of the ...

Nearly 7 million patients present to U.S. emergency departments annually for evaluation of possible acute coronary syndromes (ACSs). Despite hospital admission of the 25% to 30% who have atypical ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic have compiled peer-reviewed evidence and crafted a guideline designed to help physicians and medical centers stop the ...

DALLAS, Aug. 20 – A test commonly used to diagnose heart attacks may also identify patients at increased risk of death after balloon angioplasty, according to a study in today's rapid access issue of ...

Patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery and had elevated levels of the cardiac enzymes creatine kinase or troponin in the 24 hours following surgery had an associated intermediate ...

Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2012;5(6):687-699. CK is an enzyme that consumes ATP to create phosphocreatine from creatine; phosphocreatine can be used as a generator of ATP in the tissues that rapidly ...

Gender disparities in outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) might be addressed by sex-specific biomarker thresholds for perioperative myocardial injury, researchers suggested from a ...

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a life-threatening event. Even with timely treatment, acute ischemic myocardial injury and ensuing ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) can still be difficult issues ...

Researchers have compiled peer-reviewed evidence and crafted a guideline designed to help physicians and medical centers stop the use of a widely ordered blood test that adds no value in evaluating ...