Diagnostic utility of cardiac troponin I in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Yasutomo HoriMasayuki IguchiYasuhiro HeishimaYohei YamashitaKensuke NakamuraAtsushi HirakawaAkihito KitadeToshiki IbaragiMichio KatagiTamotsu SawadaMasashi YukiNobuyuki KannoHaruki InabaNoriko IsayamaHideyuki OnoderaNaoki IwasaMikio KinoMikihiro NarukawaSyuhei UchidaPublished in: Journal of veterinary internal medicine (2018)
Increased cTnI concentrations reflect the severity of HCM. If other causes of cardiac injury are ruled out, plasma cTnI concentration may be useful for predicting the severity of HCM in cats.