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Data on myositis described by researchers at University Medical Center

Published in Hospital Business Week, February 14th, 2010

In this recent study, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To study the association of serum cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and cardiac troponin I (cTnI) with creatine kinase (CK) in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). We performed a retrospective Study on patients with IIM followed by the rheumatology set-vice of a county hospital from 2004 to 2008."

"with myocardial ischemia and/or with renal failure were excluded. Clinical data including electromyogram, Muscle biopsy, and CK, cTnT and cTnI were recorded. who had Simultaneous analysis of CK and cardiac troponin (cTnT or cTnI) levels were Studied. CK levels were correlated with cTnT and...

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