Background A novel handheld point-of-care high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I analyser has recently been introduced to the ...

has lead to a paradigm shift in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) and injury, the recently introduced highly sensitive troponin tests will expand the diagnostic potential to the ...

Currently, patients with suspect chest pain and a clear ECG can have a different heart-attack blood test, called troponin, when they arrive at A&E. But it needs to be repeated three hours later to ...

Typically for most assays of this kind, an initial blood examination would serve as a baseline measurement for early presenters, with a further test required to detect cardiac troponin I two hours ...

Diagnosis of heart attack in first 3 hours is identified with chest pain, ECG changes and Troponin blood test detects it ...