Skip Navigation


European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 11, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(22):2349-2350; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi599
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
26/22/2349    most recent
ehi599v1
Right arrow E-letters: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when E-letters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Related articles in EHJ
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (4)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Giannitsis, E.
Right arrow Articles by Katus, H. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Giannitsis, E.
Right arrow Articles by Katus, H. A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The European Society of Cardiology 2005. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Mirror, mirror on the wall: the quest for the earliest marker of myocardial ischaemia

Evangelos Giannitsis and Hugo A. Katus*

Department of Cardiology, Medizinische Universitaätsklinik Heidelberg, Abteilung für Innere Medizin III, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

* Corresponding author. Tel: +49 6221 56 8670. E-mail address: hugo_katus@med.uni-heidelberg.de

This editorial refers to ‘Serum deoxyribonuclease I activity can be used as a sensitive marker for detection of transient myocardial ischaemia induced by percutaneous coronary intervention'{dagger} by K. Arakawa et al., on page 2375

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

In patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the diagnosis and immediate initiation of reperfusion therapy is based on the standard 12-lead ECG. Owing to the fact that cardiac markers appear in the blood a substantial time after the onset of symptoms, cardiac markers are neither helpful for early diagnosis of patients with STEMI nor should results be awaited before initiation of recanalization therapy.

Unfortunately, at least 40% of all patients with confirmed acute myocardial infarction (AMI) show no diagnostic ECG changes on admission.1 In these patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS), cardiac troponins have become the biochemical gold standard for classification, risk stratification, and guidance . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?

Related articles in EHJ:

Serum deoxyribonuclease I activity can be used as a sensitive marker for detection of transient myocardial ischaemia induced by percutaneous coronary intervention
Kenichiro Arakawa, Yasuyuki Kawai, Teruhiko Kumamoto, Norihiro Morikawa, Masahiro Yoshida, Hiroshi Tada, Ren Kawaguchi, Koichi Taniguchi, Isamu Miyamori, Yoshihiko Kominato, Koichiro Kishi, and Toshihiro Yasuda
EHJ 2005 26: 2375-2380. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text]  



This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Eur Heart JHome page
N. Morikawa, Y. Kawai, K. Arakawa, T. Kumamoto, I. Miyamori, H. Akao, M. Kitayama, K. Kajinami, J.-D. Lee, H. Takeshita, et al.
Serum deoxyribonuclease I activity can be used as a novel marker of transient myocardial ischaemia: results in vasospastic angina pectoris induced by provocation test
Eur. Heart J., December 2, 2007; 28(24): 2992 - 2997.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Eur Heart JHome page
E. Giannitsis and H. A. Katus
Ability of DNase I activity to detect myocardial ischaemia in vasospastic angina a view through a monocle?
Eur. Heart J., December 2, 2007; 28(24): 2955 - 2956.
[Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Eur Heart JHome page
M. K. Sinha, D. Roy, and J. C. Kaski
Markers of myocardial ischaemia
Eur. Heart J., March 2, 2006; 27(6): 758 - 758.
[Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Eur Heart JHome page
E. Giannitsis and H. A. Katus
Markers of myocardial ischaemia: reply
Eur. Heart J., March 2, 2006; 27(6): 759 - 759.
[Full Text] [PDF]