Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis

Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Publications

• Research Article   
  Dynamic Changes of Troponin and Creatine Phosphokinase in Acute Myocarditis and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
  Author(s): Koren O*, Rozner E, Abu-Daoud I and Turgeman Y
  
  Background: Myocarditis and acute Myocardial Infarction pose a daily diagnostic dilemma. Magnetic resonance imaging and endomyocardial biopsy are the gold standard for definite diagnosis but are rarely performed routinely. Troponin and Creatine phosphokinase (CPK) are elevated in both diseases and could not be used for proper discrimination. We analyzed the dynamics of these serum markers during acute setting by analyzing the tangent slope of their level curve over time. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study in our medical center. Records of approximately 1,300 patients hospitalized from January 2011 to December 2016 were examined. A total of 193 patients were found to be eligible for the study and were divided into two groups: Myocarditis group (n=133, 69%) and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction gr.. Read More»
  

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