What are the medical conditions that can cause elevated cardiac troponin levels?
Elevated cardiac troponin levels can be caused by tachyarrhythmia, hypotension or hypertension, cardiac trauma, acute heart failure, myocarditis and pericarditis, acute pulmonary thromboembolic disease, severe noncardiac conditions such as sepsis, burns, respiratory failure, acute neurological diseases, and drug toxicity (including cancer chemotherapy). Chronic elevations can result from structural cardiac abnormalities such as left ventricular hypertrophy or ventricular dilatation and are also common in patients with renal disease.