High-sensitive cardiac troponin T and its relations to cardiovascular risk factors, morbidity, and mortality in elderly men.

Background: Cardiac troponin is emerging as risk indicator in community-dwelling populations. In this study, we investigated the associations of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) to cardiovascular (CV) disease and outcome in elderly men.

Methods: Cardiac troponin T was measured using a high-sensitive assay in 940 men aged 71 years participating in the Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men.

[D-dimer in acute aortic dissection].

D-dimer measurement is widely accepted as a diagnostic test for pulmonary embolism in cases in which a negative value has a high predictive power. We present two cases of acute thoracic aortic dissection with particularly high D-dimer values and discuss the diagnostic value of D-dimer as an initial test with suspected aortic dissection.

[Acute idiopathic scrotal edema: a rare or underdiagnosed disease?].

We present a case of acute idiopathic scrotal oedema diagnosed after surgical scrotal exploration and we discuss its incidence, differential diagnoses and indication of surgery for acute scrotum with boys.