1. Elevated Cardiac Troponin T in Skeletal Myopathies
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Wim H. M. Vroemen, Alexander S. Streng, Steven J.R. Meex, Douwe de Boer, and Alma M.A. Mingels
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Cardiac troponin ,Troponin T ,biology ,business.industry ,Skeletal muscle ,macromolecular substances ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Cross-reactivity ,Troponin ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Endocrinology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Troponin complex ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,biology.protein ,In patient ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
We read with interest the paper by Schmid et al. [(1)][1], who described elevated cardiac troponin T (cTnT) concentrations in patients with skeletal myopathies in which they suggested cross-reaction of the high-sensitivity (hs-)cTnT immunoassay with skeletal muscle troponin T (skTnT) isoforms as
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- 2018
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