Expanding the Differential: What Else Can an Elevated Troponin Signify?
Author: Shyam Sivasankar, MDStanford-Kaiser Emergency Medicine Originally Published: Modern Resident, December-January 2015 We often underestimate the utility of modern laboratory technology—we become shortsighted and we forget that a lab value can tell us more than what we are naturally used to it representing. One such lab value is cardiac troponin. Instinctively, we assume that an […]
