Interpreting Elevated Troponin Results
20 June 2020
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Troponin is cardiac specific but not Myocardial Infarction specific
- Myocardial injury may be caused by Non-Acute Coronary Syndrome events, evident by increase in hs-Tn levels
- 4th Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction discriminates between myocardial injury and Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)
- AMI is a subset of myocardial injury defined by its clinical context
- Extensive cardiac workup is required to identify the pathology of elevated Troponin
