Q: What else besides a heart attack can cause elevated troponin levels?
Hi Dominic,
Here are a few other conditions that can lead to elevated troponin levels:
Acute Pericarditis
Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Acute or Severe Heart Failure
Myocarditis
Sepsis/Critically Ill
Renal Failure
You also may want to consider the possibility of a false-positive troponin. A variety of factors can interfere with the test results, such as heterophilic antibodies, rheumatoid factor, fibrin clots, microparticles, and malfunction of the analyzer itself.
As an FYI, my source for the above information is a study conducted in 2004 by Chanwit Roongsritong, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
All the best,l
Lisa Nelson RD
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