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was admitted to hospital for what they thought was heart ...
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was admitted to hospital for what they thought was heart attack due to blood test saying
ck-mb was 5.4 and troponin 0.12
6 hrs later was ck-mb 5.5 troponin 0.53 6 hrs later ck-mb 7.3 and troponin 1.12
yet heart cath should no blockage bp was fine a eeg from prior month exactly as the one the took while in er.
they say no heart attack so what was it then? why levels rasied so?

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October 2 12:33 PM (27 minutes and 32 seconds later)
         
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Troponin levels may also be elevated with acute or chronic conditions such as myocarditis (heart inflammation), congestive heart failure, nonischemic cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease), some infections, dermatomyositis, kidney disease, blood clots in the lung, and polymyositis (muscle disease). Also, some patients may experience mild heart damage with no other evidence of a "heart attack" (myocardial infarctionon) - EKG (called not ST elevation MI), pain, etc.
Hopefully you are scheduled for follow up testing - stress test, echocardiogram, and the like. In one study, mortality rate from future problems was 5% in people with negative heart attack diagnosis, but an elevated Troponin I. The rate of "another" MI was 15%!



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