(eBook) Cardiac Biomarkers by Alan S. Maisel, Allan S. Jaffe

This is the PDF eBook version for Cardiac Biomarkers – Case Studies and Clinical Correlations by Alan S. Maisel, Allan S. Jaffe

Table of Contents

The patient with chest pain: The troponin story.- Troponin Basics for the clinician.- Pathophysiology of trop I and T in myocardial ischemia/infarction.- International Definition of MI- rationale and practice.- Evaluation of patients presenting with chest pain- where do troponins fit in.- Using contemporary troponin in patients with AMI.- Using troponins to guide therapy in ACS.- Use of cTn in patients with heart failure.- Elevated cTn in other acute situations.- Use of cTn for detection of more chronic disease states.- High sensitivity assays- what are they and why do we need them.- Use of troponin for the evaluation of patients potentially at risk for cardiovascular disease.- Gaps in our biomarker armamentarium – what novel biomarkers might be synergistic in patients with acute disease.- The patient with shortness of breath: the natriuretic peptide story.- Evaluation of patients presenting with sob- where do nps fit in.- Pathophysiology of bnp, and ntpro bnp.- A clinicians guide to lab assays for nps.- Using NPS in the ED- diagnosis.- Using NPs in the ED- algorithms and risk stratification.- Using NPs in the hospital.- NPs at the time of discharge.- Finger stick NP levels at home.- Guiding therapy of heart failure with NPs.- Caveats to NP measurement.- Other biomarkers for heart failure.- Biomarkers of cardiorenal disease,- Biomarkers of cardiac risk.?