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2008 The Lab Says Heart Attack, but the Patient Is Fine

New York Times

Published: November 26, 2008
 

THE man was 40 years old and seemed perfectly healthy — he had just run a 10-kilometer race. But he fainted after the race and was rushed to a hospital. There, in the emergency room, his blood was tested. His levels of a heart protein, troponin, were sky-high. It looked as if he was having a heart attack.

The runner ended up in the coronary intensive care unit at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/health/nutrition/27best.html?scp=7&sq=intensive%20care%20unit&st=cse