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1/15 #MedTwitter: You're admitting a 64YO male with ESRD on HD for hyperkalemia after missing dialysis. A troponin was checked & returned at 0.78 (nl<0.055 ng/mL), similar to his baseline. He is w/osymptoms and EKG is w/o dynamic changes. What would you call this #tropbump?
2/15 Have you ever been taught to think about troponin as being cardiac vs. non-cardiac in origin? Though this may be a nice framework, itโs simply untrue: if youโre measuring cardiac troponin I (cTnI), it is expressed only on myocardium(not skeletal muscle, unlike troponin T).
3/15 The lexicon to describe troponins is confusing!
"๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ข" is frequently used but is not very helpful. It is NOT a diagnosis or etiology, and should probably be abandoned as a term altogether.
"๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ข" is frequently used but is not very helpful. It is NOT a diagnosis or etiology, and should probably be abandoned as a term altogether.
