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 | |
