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Cardiac troponin I (TnI) and T (TnT): Interpretation and evaluation in acute coronary syndromes

ECG Troponin is a protein complex expressed in cardiac and skeletal muscle. The complex consists of troponin I (TnI) , troponin C (TnC) and troponin T…

Acute Limb Ischaemia: Recognition and Urgent Management

…The resulting ischaemia threatens skeletal muscle and peripheral nerves and may progress rapidly to irreversible tissue injury. Skeletal muscle and nerves generally tolerate ischaemia for…

Bempedoic Acid: Evidence and Clinical Use

…by very long chain acyl CoA synthetase 1. This activating enzyme is not expressed in skeletal muscle, a pharmacological feature that may limit muscle related…

Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Assessment and Treatment

…level risk estimation, but it does not characterize body composition, fat distribution, skeletal muscle mass, physical fitness or individual health status. In particular, it cannot…

Physical Activity Prescription for Cardiovascular Prevention

…depression, dementia and osteoporosis. It also improves functional capacity, skeletal health, muscular strength, quality of life and psychological well being. Physical inactivity is itself a…

Exercise physiology: from normal response to myocardial ischemia & chest pain

…etc . The purpose of such changes is simply to enable the cardiopulmonary system to increase its delivery of oxygen to skeletal muscle and myocardium. The…

Myocardial Injury Versus Infarction: Interpreting Troponin Elevation

…for myocardial injury. Interpretation of troponin T is more complex because injured skeletal muscle may express proteins detected by some troponin T assays. Troponin can…

Cardiac electrophysiology and ECG interpretation

…cell type, and these terms are used interchangeably. Cardiac cell architecture In contrast to skeletal muscle, cardiac cells display a branch like morphology. As illustrated…

Artifacts in ultrasound imaging

…Structures with low echogenicity reflect less ultrasound and become darker in the image. Acoustic shadowing Some structures have very high echogenicity (e.g skeleton, calcifications…

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