Long forms of cardiac troponin T are independent of kidney function and improve the diagnosis of myocardial infarction.
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS A recently developed cardiac troponin T (cTnT) assay measuring intact or mildly fragmented cTnT (long cTnT) has shown promise in improving the accuracy of myocardial infarction (MI) detection compared to the commercial high sensitivity cTnT (hs-cTnT) assay. However, data on patients with kidne...