Causes of Elevated Troponin
Noncardiac Causes | Cardiac Causes |
Acute Noncardiac Critical Illness | Acute and Chronic Heart Failure |
Acute Pulmonary Edema | Acute Inflammatory Myocarditis or Endocarditis/Pericarditis |
Acute Pulmonary Embolism | Aortic Dissection |
Cardiotoxic Drugs | Aortic Valve Disease |
Stroke, Subarachnoid hemorrhage | Apical Ballooning Syndrome |
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | Bradyarrhythmia, Heart Block |
Chronic renal failure | Cardiac contusion from trauma |
Extensive Burns | Cardiac surgery, Post-percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Endomyocardial biopsy |
Infiltrative Disease (Amyloidosis) | Cardioversion |
Rhabdomyolysis with Myocyte Necrosis | Direct Myocardial Trauma |
Sepsis | Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy |
Sever Pulmonary Hypertension | Tachycardia/Tachyarrhythmia, Bradyarrhythmia |
Strenuous Exercise/Extreme Exertion | Â |