Cardiac markers.
Cardiac markers or, more correctly, cardiac biomarkers are now integral to diagnostic and management strategies in cardiovascular disease. Scarcely a week passes without another publication claiming a new and allegedly useful cardiac biomarker. The actuality is that only two cardiac biomarkers are currently in routine clinical use; the measurement of the cardiac troponins for the differential diagnosis of suspected acute coronary syndromes and measurement of B type natriuretic peptide (BNP) for the differential diagnosis of suspected cardiac failure.
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Clinical Blood Sciences Laboratory, St. George's Hospital, London SW17 ORE.
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