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Springer Cardiac Biomarkers Case Studies and Clinical Correlations 1st Editon 2016 Softbound by Alan S. Maisel, Allan S. Jaffe
This book covers ACS and Heart Failure, the chapters represent the most current, up to date and knowledgeable content on the topic available. It is written by the worlds most respected leaders in biomarkers, with a majority emphasis on what clinicians need to know.The Editors and their contributors have provided algorithms, annotated case discussions and caveats. They cover biomarkers to predict risk of heart disease, biomarkers of cardiorenal disease , and conclude with a section on new and emerging biomarkers. It be genuinely helpful and practical to those in the field, including not just people working in the field, but nurses, doctors, etc who practice medicine in the clinic, the emergency department and the hospital. The patient with chest pain: The troponin story.- Troponin Basics for the clinician.- Pathophysiology of trop I and T in myocardial ischemia/infarction.- International Definition of MI- rationale and practice.- Evaluation of patients presenting with chest pain- where do troponins fit in.- Using contemporary troponin in patients with AMI.- Using troponins to guide therapy in ACS.- Use of cTn in patients with heart failure.- Elevated cTn in other acute situations.- Use of cTn for detection of more chronic disease states.- High sensitivity assays- what are they and why do we need them.- Use of troponin for the evaluation of patients potentially at risk for cardiovascular disease.- Gaps in our biomarker armamentarium – what novel biomarkers might be synergistic in patients with acute disease.- The patient with shortness of breath: the natriuretic peptide story.- Evaluation of patients presenting with sob- where do nps fit in.- Pathophysiology of bnp, and ntpro bnp.- A clinicians guide to lab assays for nps.- Using NPS in the ED- diagnosis.- Using NPs in the ED- algorithms and risk stratification.- Using NPs in the hospital.- NPs at the time of discharge.- Finger stick NP levels at home.- Guiding therapy of heart failure with NPs.- Caveats to NP measurement.- Other biomarkers for heart failure.- Biomarkers of cardiorenal disease,- Biomarkers of cardiac risk.