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Our findings demonstrate an association between myocardial injury in ACS and acute phase reaction as evidenced by several molecular markers. A highly sensitive TnT-test identified myocardial injury in about all patients with APR while a standard TnT cut-off (0.1 ng/ml) missed 32% of these patients. Thus, the APR in patients with ACS is strongly associated with at least minor ischemic myocardial damage and prior findings of an APR independent from myocardial injury are probably based on less sensitive troponin tests.

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