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An athletic 30-something woman with acute substernal chest pressure

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Now you have ECG and troponin evidence of ischemia, AND ventricular dysrhythmia, which means this is NOT a stable ACS. Troponins may be negative with very rapid reperfusion, or measured too late, or chronically elevated due to cardiomyopathy or renal failure. Again, cath lab was not activated. What does this troponin level mean?

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The three things that can go wrong with the heart

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

If our valves are leaky then again, a smaller volume of blood is effectively ejected because some leaks back Cardiomyopathies – if the heart muscle itself is defective in some way then that makes it weaker. This includes conditions like familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, familial dilated cardiomyopathy etc.