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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

…perfusion of an upper or lower limb that causes tissue metabolic requirements to exceed available blood flow. The resulting ischaemia threatens skeletal muscle and peripheral…

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

…Myocardial injury Myocardial injury is a biochemical diagnosis defined by at least one cardiac troponin value above the assay specific 99th percentile upper reference limit…

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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