Table 2

Conditions commonly associated with cardiac troponin elevations

Arrhythmias

Congestive heart failure

Coronary artery disease

Coronary vasospasm

Critically ill patient

Hypertension

Myocarditis

Pericarditis, acute

Pulmonary embolism

Pulmonary hypertension, severe

Renal failure

Sepsis/septic shock

Sepsis-related myocardial dysfunction

Systemic inflammatory diseases

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Trauma

McLean et al. Critical Care 2008 12:215   doi:10.1186/cc6880