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Editorial
. 2024 Aug 20;6(4):608-611.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaccao.2024.06.002. eCollection 2024 Aug.

Circulating Macrotroponin Complexes and Their Impact on Cardiac Troponin Measurements: Potential Implications for Cardio-Oncology

Inbar Nardi-Agmon  1 , Ashley Di Meo  2   3 , Leo Lam  4 , Campbell Kyle  4 , Husam Abdel-Qadir  1   5 , Eitan Amir  6 , Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan  1
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Circulating Macrotroponin Complexes and Their Impact on Cardiac Troponin Measurements: Potential Implications for Cardio-Oncology

Inbar Nardi-Agmon et al. JACC CardioOncol. .
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Keywords: cardiac biomarkers; cardio-oncology; macrotroponin; troponin antibody.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr Nardi-Agmon is supported by the Hold’em for life research grant. Dr Thavendiranathan is supported by a Canada Research Chair in Cardiooncology (grant CRC-2019-00097) and the Canadian Cancer Society/Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s W. David Hargraft grant. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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A Suggested Approach to Assessing Elevated cTn Values During Cancer Therapy The flow diagram provides a potential approach to patients who are undergoing surveillance with cardiac troponin (cTn) during cancer therapy with identification of elevated cTn measurements. IFCC = International Federation of Clinical Chemistry; PEG = polyethylene glycol.
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