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View Post: No improvement in surviving heart attack at home
2 Dec 2009 by Ians  
November 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - There is an increased level of cardiac biomarkers in the blood of heart attack patients for several months after leaving the hospital, which often leads to more shortness of breath and chest pain, ...
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View Post: Cardiac Biomarkers Persist in Patients' Blood for Months After ...
20 Nov 2009 by MFP  
By: Ed Susman ORLANDO, FL - Biomarkers seen during myocardial infarction persist in a patient's blood for months following hospital discharge, according to analyses of a heart-attack patient registry, presented recently at the American ...
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View Post: Viron reports positive Phase II data in Acute Coronary Syndromes ...
22 Nov 2009
"There were also no subsequent major adverse cardiac events in the high dose group, which correlates well with VT-111's impact on two prognostic cardiac biomarkers, Troponin I and CK-MB, whose predictive value have been demonstrated in ...
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View Post: Cardiac biomarker levels strongly predict outcome of bypass ...
4 Sep 2009 by BJS  
Cardiac biomarker levels strongly predict outcome of bypass surgery. Levels of a biomarker used in the diagnosis of heart attacks are almost universally elevated in patients who have undergone coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) and, ...
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View Post: BioMarkers Index: Extracellular Cardiac Matrix Biomarkers in ...
24 Nov 2009 by Diagnostic Research  
Background— Aldosterone stimulates cardiac collagen synthesis. Circulating biomarkers of collagen turnover provide a useful tool for the assessment of cardiac remodeling in patients with congestive heart failure and left ventricular ...
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View Post: Chest pain: simple criteria pinpoint who benefits most from ...
25 Nov 2009
To investigate, they studied 368 patients with the chief complaint of acute chest pain and inconclusive workup (nondiagnostic electrocardiographic findings, negative cardiac biomarkers) who underwent cardiac CTA to rule out myocardial ...
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View Post: Highlights of ACS discussion: tuesday 10Nov09
21 Nov 2009 by Amy Sauerwein  
The most common cardiac biomarkers that are measured include creatine kinase (CK) and troponin I. Trp I becomes elevated within 4-6 hours of MI onset, and can remain elevated for up to 2 weeks. When cardiac cells are injured during an ...
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View Post: Viron reports positive Phase II data in Acute Coronary Syndromes ...
18 Nov 2009
Subjects were then followed for three days in the hospital and returned at two weeks, four weeks, three months, and six months for evaluation of safety and a variety of inflammatory and cardiac biomarkers. ...
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