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Hess, N.R., Sultan, I., Wang, Y., Thoma, F.W. and Kilic, A. (2021) Preoperative Troponin Levels and Outcomes of Coronary Surgery Following Myocardial Infarction. Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 36, 2429-2439.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jocs.15557

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• TITLE: Good Outcome after More Than a Million Troponin in Serum

  AUTHORS: Mohamed Elbayomi, Timo Seitz, Michael Weyand

  KEYWORDS: Cardiac Troponin, Coronary Bypass Operation, Heart Lung Machine

  JOURNAL NAME: Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, Vol.11 No.1, January 20, 2022

  ABSTRACT: A troponin in serum of more than one Million in vivo is rare insult. We report a case of 85-year-old woman who was transferred to our institution because of acute ST elevated myocardial infarction and the troponin level reached a peak of 1,032,904.2 pg/ml. She was discharged with highly reduced left ventricular function, however in the three months follow up after a coronary bypass operation she completely was free from heart failure symptoms and echocardiography showed a totally normal function of both ventricles. This case study highlights that the initial serum troponin in acute settings can mislead the long-term prognosis and gives prominence to the expeditious myocardial revascularization.