cardiac infarction

Hrusovsky offered the following example, “Today, when you’re taken to the emergency room for a cardiac infarction, the first thing that’s measured is your troponin levels to determine whether or not you’ve had a heart attack.  When you have a heart attack, the protein goes up so high that today’s technology can easily diagnose it after the fact, however, single molecule detection via a blood test can diagnose troponin in healthy patients long before the cardiac infarction, changing the way in which medicine is practiced.”