Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine (Mar 2017)

Impact of troponin I on outcome of ischemic stroke patients

  • Budincevic Hrvoje,
  • Sremec Josip,
  • Crnac Petra,
  • Ostojic Vedran,
  • Galic Edvard,
  • Bielen Ivan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/rjim-2016-0044
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 1
pp. 19 – 22

Abstract

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Introduction. Stroke is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Cardiac troponins have been found to be increased in other conditions apart from the cardiac diseases, such as stroke. The aim of the study was to assess the correlation between elevated troponin I levels and stroke outcome.

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