Origin of Cardiac Troponin T Elevations in Chronic Kidney Disease

Noreen van der Linden¹, Tom Cornelis¹, Dorien M Kimenai¹+13

• ¹From Department of Clinical Chemistry, Central Diagnostic Laboratory (N.v.d.L., D.M.K., L.J.J.K., J.M.H., A.S.S., O.B., S.J.R.M.) and Department of Cardiology (F.E.C.M.P.), Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology (T.C., E.J.R.L., J.P.K.), and Department of Human Biology and Movement Sciences, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (L.J.C.v.L.), Maastricht University Medical Center, The Netherlands; Institute for Theoretical Biology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany (S.L.); Department of Internal Medicine (T.B.), Department of Cardiology (C.M.), and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (T.B., C.M.), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland; and Biomathematics and Bioinformatics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Biometry, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany (P.O.W.). Dr Cornelis is currently at Department of Nephrology, Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium. Dr Klinkenberg is currently at Clinical Laboratory, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.+1