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I’m stuck above the Atlantic so I’m bored as frick so let’s talk troponin.
Troponin levels are used to determine if a myocardiac infarction has occurred recently (upwards of 36 weeks due to new sensitivity). It is common that a patient refuses a possible positive troponin result to help the family members.
Troponin levels are taken every 15-30 minutes to gauge how recent an MI occurred. It isn’t a determinate factor but gives a good frame of reference.
Troponin doesn’t lie and a positive level is definitive of an MI. The test takes at most a half hour to determine if a cardiac event has happened recently but people are weird 
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Hi I am a chemist so I'll play in to your little sperg here.
Remind me what troponin is? What sort of test/instrument is used to measure its levels in blood?
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Troponin is a muscular regulatory protein. It’s an important bio marker that affects the downfield muscular cardio system indirectly but cannot affect the cardio or any form of soft tissue directly.
Testing depends on the clinical presentation. I’m not a pathologist so I dont know how a lab operates and results.
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