Increasingly Sensitive Troponin Assays: Is Perfect the Enemy of Good?
Cian P McCarthy1, James L Januzzi1
1Division of Cardiology Department of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Boston MA.
Journal of the American Heart Association
|November 26, 2020
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