Confounding factors in the relation between high sensitivity cardiac troponin T levels in serum and infarct size of patients with first ST-elevation myocardial infarction

Int J Cardiol. 2014 Mar 1;172(1):e3-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.12.141. Epub 2014 Jan 4.

¹ Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. Electronic address: c.m.cobbaert@lumc.nl.
² Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Medical Statistics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁵ BioPartner Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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Keywords: Acute myocardial infarction; Creatine kinase; High sensitivity cardiac troponin T; Infarct size; Renal function; Reperfusion.

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