Search results for "Troponin"
Diagnosing pulmonary embolism
A pulmonary embolism can present in a variety of clinical scenarios; however, there are several features that are typical.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/08/expert-analysis-diagnosing-pulmonary-embolism.htm
15 Aug 2017
MKSAP primer: Heart failure
Initial diagnostic testing of the patient with heart failure includes obtaining an electrocardiogram, a chest radiograph, and an echocardiogram, as well as blood chemistry evaluation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/mksap.htm
15 Nov 2007
Test yourself: Sepsis
Sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/08/test.htm
15 Aug 2008
Troponin T, history, and EKG rule MI in or out in chest pain patients
Troponin alone was highly effective at ruling out acute myocardial infarction and adverse cardiac events within 30 days but would have missed 3 cases of unstable angina, the study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/30/1.htm
30 Mar 2016
Test yourself: Pulmonary medicine
These cases and commentary, which address pulmonary medicine, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/09/ty.htm
15 Sep 2010
October 19, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/19/
Troponin monitoring may predict death after noncardiac surgery
Postoperative monitoring of cardiac troponin may help improve the prognosis of patients who undergo noncardiac surgery, the authors of a new study wrote.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/05/22/4.htm
22 May 2013
Recent Research
Outpatient vs. inpatient PE treatment, handheld echocardiography and length of stay, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/12/rr.htm
15 Dec 2011
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
An example case helps explain this clinical syndrome that mimics acute myocardial infarction.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/expert-analysis-takotsubo-cardiomyopathy.htm
15 May 2020
ICD-10 embraces definitions of MI
Learn the definitions of and distinctions among the six types of myocardial infarction (MI) that were recently recognized by the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/coding-icd-10-definitions-of-mi.htm
15 Oct 2017