PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tehrani, David M.
AU  - Seto, Arnold H.
TI  - Third universal definition of myocardial infarction: Update, caveats, differential diagnoses
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.80a.12158
DP  - 2013 Dec 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 777--786
VI  - 80
IP  - 12
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/80/12/777.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/80/12/777.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2013 Dec 01; 80
AB  - Updated definitions of myocardial infarction (MI) reflect research on measuring cardiac troponin to diagnose MI. Elevations of this biomarker indicate cardiac injury but not always an acute coronary syndrome. Clinical judgment is needed to interpret increasingly sensitive biomarker assays appropriately. Here, we review the new MI definitions and the various causes of elevated troponin to enable physicians to differentiate acute coronary syndromes from other conditions.