Cardiology (Acute Coronary Syndromes)
bioMérieux has diagnostic cardiac marker tests which are sensitive, specific and rapid. They meet the current recent recommendations that patients presenting at the emergency room with chest pain /suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome must be treated rapidly, within one hour. Troponin is currently considered to be the best biochemical marker for the detection of myocardial injury.1
1. Thom T et al. Heart disease and stroke statistics - 2006 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Committee. Circulation 2006; 113: e85-e151.
