Assisted by the HEART score, emergency physicians appear to be able to safely discharge patients with chest pain after just one negative conventional troponin test result, a retrospective cohort study ...

A new test has been developed in Turku, Finland, that helps in separating heart attack patients from those whose cardiac troponin values are elevated due to renal insufficiency. Cardiac troponins are ...

A test used by doctors in the emergency room to determine if a person is having a heart attack is now equipped to be more sensitive than ever. In addition to diagnosing heart attacks earlier, the test ...

A new test has been developed in Turku, Finland, that helps in separating heart attack patients from those whose cardiac troponin values are elevated due to renal insufficiency. Blood sample tests for ...

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays may eventually play a part in an overall strategy for evaluating patients who present with stable chest pain symptoms and possible coronary disease, an ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - New ultra-sensitive blood tests can rapidly detect when heart muscle is dying from a heart attack, even from the moment the patient arrives in the emergency room, according to two ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) remains concerned about the potential of biotin, or vitamin B 7, to interfere with the results of laboratory testing, including troponin testing for diagnosis ...

A simple £5 blood test for the protein troponin could predict a person's risk of heart attacks and strokes with greater accuracy than ever before, research suggests. Troponin is found in heart muscle ...

When Marc Hammer went to the emergency room feeling fatigued and dizzy, he had no idea his life was actually at risk. "I'm an avid cyclist and walk five to 15 miles a day," said Hammer, "so you can ...

PARIS — A single cardiac troponin measurement by high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) assay can safely and effectively rule out myocardial infarction (MI) at presentation, results from more ...