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Cardiac troponin T (cTnT) is key in diagnosing myocardial infarction (MI) but is also elevated in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. Specific larger cTnT proteoforms were identified for the acute phase of MI, while in serum of ESRD patients solely small cTnT fragments were found. However, others allocated this to a pre-analytic effect due to abundant thrombin generation in serum. Therefore, we investigated the effect of various anticoagulation methods on cTnT composition and concentration and compared the cTnT composition of MI and ESRD patients.
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