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Cardiac enzymes
Troponins are muscle enzymes that can be measured in the blood to detect muscle damage in the heart like with a heart attack. When the muscle is damaged the enzymes leak from the cells.
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A 38-year old asked:
What are cardiac enzymes?
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A 36-year old asked:
What are the normal levels for cardiac enzymes?
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A 39-year old asked:
What causes cardiac enzymes to become elevated?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: cardiac enzymes?
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A 48-year old asked:
My cardiac enzymes are elevated after doing heavy work. Should i be concerned?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Are there meds that can cause false cardiac enzyme readings on blood tests?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Slightly elevated cardiac enzymes but perfect EKG what does this mean?
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A 43-year old female asked:
What does septal infarct age undetermined mean as my cardiac enzymes were fine but before this septal infarct I had non-specific T-Wave abno?
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A 27-year old female asked:
Will cardiac enzymes always be elevated in an aortic dissection ?
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A 31-year old asked:
Can there be typically a release of cardiac enzyme after atrial flutter?
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A 29-year old female asked:
I m 29..my ecg shows incomplete rbbb with qrs complex 108ms.other than no abnormality found hr was 84 regular.i do my cardiac enzymes all were normal?
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A 44-year old asked:
Ecg/cardiac enzymes heart, how are these related?
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A 44-year old asked:
Can you tell me the cardiac enzymes that are tested to confirm the diagnosis of myocardial infarction?
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A 34-year old male asked:
I did my cardiac enzyme tests, result is serum AST 45, serum ck 585, serum ldh. Worry, doing cardio exercise as well, please advice. Trop t is negative?
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A 28-year old male asked about a male:
My grandfather just had a surgery as his hip bone had broken due to falling down.his cardiac enzyme in the blood is high.so what is it..he is normal?
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A 51-year old female asked:
History of myocarditis + chf(30&8yyrs ago). feel shortness of breth&othr symp.Cardiac enzymes OK. jgb,hct,rbc low but not bad.can this be myocarditis?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Does normal ECHO and cardiac enzymes rule out endocarditis and myocarditis and normal EKG rule out pericarditis ?
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A 48-year old female asked:
Had an ekg a few years back that said:Marked ST abnormality,possible inferior subendocardial injury.However several cardiac enzymes blood tests taken that day were normal. How likely is it that Ive had a heart attack in the past with normal ekg now?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Sudden chest pain,sweating. Normal torpnin i,cardiac enzymes, echo normal. normal ECG only inversion of t wave in lead 3 since 6 months. What is cause?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Normal echo cardiac , ECG , cardiac blood test includes all cardiac enzymes , ett , pft , cbc. But sudden pain in chest , cold sweating , fainting.
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A 21-year old male asked:
Sharp, short neck pains that shoot into fingers. Both sides. Occasional left side chest cramp. Good EKG, cardiac enzymes and chest X-ray. Heart issue?
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A 41-year old female asked:
Have episodes of normal HR until I stand & HR goes from 72 up to 110-134 & remains elevated until I sit or lay, also lightheaded, blurred vision, heart palps, and anxiety. Fatigue afterward. POTS? Normal ECG/EKG, cardiac enzymes, Echo, lab, & chest x?
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A 27-year old female asked:
I have had numbness and tingling in my left arm for about 5 hours now and palpitations. Ekg, cxr, and cardiac enzymes normal. Suggestions?
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A 38-year old male asked:
Have tenderness below xiphoid process. At ER a week ago. Troponin was 0.12, cardiac enzymes 0. Stress test normal. Stressful job. Is this inflammation?
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A male asked:
Can someone explain telemetry monitoring? What is a telemetry floor? My mother was a cardiac patient with a pacemaker and type 2 diabetic with an abnormal EKG and elevated cardiac enzymes. She was found unresponsive and cold and had suffered a m.I.. She a
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A 33-year old female asked:
Chst pain on off w dyspnea.Ecg heart enzyme cardiac echo angio CT w contrast ok.Can it be angina?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Constant brain fog don't feel here.Tired.Out of breath.Chest pains.Headache.Cant see properly.Had ecgs.Chest xray.Full blood count.Cardiac enzymes. ?
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A 28-year old female asked:
Ekgs good( sinus tachycardia)..Chest xray..Blood work. Cardiac enzymes..Ct angiogram ok..Echo and stress test on wednesday..Is it safe to say all is w?
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A 37-year old female asked:
Went to ER for burning between breast bone, stomach pain w full feeling. EKG and cardiac enzymes norm. Gallbladder removed. GB attack or cardiac?
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A 59-year old male asked:
Yesterday, a negative covid result appeared. Dizziness and strong pressure drop when getting up, high sugar, high got enzyme and slow heart these are the effects that I suffer from now. I have chronic hypertension with cardiac catheterization?
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