European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 8, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(20):2206-2207; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi425
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Impact of the elevation of biochemical markers of myocardial damage on long-term mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention: results of the CK-MB and PCI study: reply
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We appreciated the comments by Porto et al. concerning the different prognostic impact of the increases in creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) and troponin I (cTnI) emerging from our study. They suspect that a methodological problem associated with the calculation of the cTnI ratio may have conditioned our