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. 2005 Sep;91(9):1219-20.
doi: 10.1136/hrt.2004.046052.

Prolonged exercise should be considered alongside typical symptoms of acute myocardial infarction when evaluating increases in cardiac troponin T

R E Shave, G P Whyte, K George, D C Gaze, P O Collinson

Prolonged exercise should be considered alongside typical symptoms of acute myocardial infarction when evaluating increases in cardiac troponin T

R E Shave et al. Heart. 2005 Sep.
No abstract available

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Positive cardiac troponin T (cTnT) samples after the London marathon (scale is log plotted because of the data spread).
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