Lack of Relationship Between Serum Cardiac Troponin I Level and Giant Cell Myocarditis Diagnosis and Outcomes

J Card Fail. 2016 Jul;22(7):583-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2015.12.022. Epub 2016 Jan 6.

Authors

Nisha A Gilotra¹, Nicole Minkove¹, Mosi K Bennett², Ryan J Tedford³, Charles Steenbergen³, Daniel P Judge³, Marc K Halushka³, Stuart D Russell³

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
² Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.
³ Departments of Medicine and Pathology,Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.

PMID: 26768222
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2015.12.022

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Biopsy
Giant Cells / pathology
Humans
Middle Aged
Myocarditis / blood*
Myocarditis / diagnosis*
Myocarditis / pathology
Myocardium / pathology
Troponin I / blood*

Substances

Troponin I