Laboratory Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction

myocardial damage but do not indicate its mechanism. Thus, an elevated value in the absence of clinical evidence of ischemic heart disease should prompt a search for situations in which various degrees of myocardial injury may be present. Elevation of cardiac troponins without ischemic heart disease can be observed in [20]:

  Damage, Myocardial, Myocardial damage