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What Causes Severe Chest Pain While On Troponin?
Hello, My Father is in the hospital and he Felt chest pain on 24/10/2016 and went to emergency then the doctors said he had a clot in the back artery of the heart and had some clot medications and stayed in the ICU for 3 days then he felt fine and then today he had troponin CKMB analysis and the result turned to be 3.95 ng/ml and the normal is up to(0.08) said by the report I don t know what does it mean and the doctors here said it is normal to be this way and it needs about 48 hours for the enzyme levels to be lowered, I don t know the right thing to do and I m worried does he need a cardiac catheterization? Pardon my english
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Mon, 31 Oct 2016
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Hi,
Yes, troponin and CPK and LDH etc rise after a cardiac event but they normalise after some days.
The point is that they should not rise again. Your cardiologist is right.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Varinder Joshi, General & Family Physician
Yes, troponin and CPK and LDH etc rise after a cardiac event but they normalise after some days.
The point is that they should not rise again. Your cardiologist is right.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Varinder Joshi, General & Family Physician
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