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. 2022 Jul 24;12(8):1114. doi: 10.3390/life12081114

Table 1.

Three groups of the causes for cardiac troponins’ increase.

Increase in cTnT and cTnI Level Associated with the Myocardial Injury in Primary Cardiac Disease Increase in cTnT and cTnI Associated with Myocardial Injury in Non-Cardiac Diseases Increase in cTnT and cTnI Associated with Preanalytical and Analytical Factors
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    MI,

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    Cardiomyopathy

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    Acute and chronic myocarditis

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    Takotsubo syndrome

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    Arrhythmias

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    Heart surgery

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    Cardiac contusion

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    Infiltrative pathologies (amyloidosis of the heart, etc.)
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    CRF

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    COPD

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    Cardiotoxicity of drugs

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    Sepsis

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    PATE

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    Physical exercise, psycho-emotional stresses
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    Hemolysis

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    Lipemia

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    Bilirubin

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    Clots

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    Heterophile antibodies

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    Alkaline phosphatase

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    Rheumatoid factor.

Abbreviations: cTnT—cardiac troponin T, cTnI—cardiac troponin I, MI—myocardial infarction, COPD—chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, CRF—chronic renal failure, PATE—pulmonary artery thromboembolism.