It's amazing how many forum entires on this and other heath boards there are from people who have had slightly elevated troponin levels with no explanation.

Since my experience 6 months ago, I have been trying to figure out what happened to me, and SEVEN cardiologist can't even offer me a freaking THEORY.

I went to the emergency room because I had a sensation in my throat that was making me cough. Since I am a MVP patient, I was worried that I might be having some major issue. They did the usual battery of cardiac tests, and they all were normal except for the troponin T which came back .06. They tested it every 8 hours for two days and it was between .06 and .09.

They did an about a dozen EKGs. All normal. They did an Echocardiogram. Normal. They did a chest X-Ray. Normal. They did a lung embolism test. Normal. They did a cardiac catherdization. Normal (and scary). I can't even tell you all the blood tests they did (all normal), but they were drawing blood constantly!

They let me go home with my troponin still elevated. I went to my cardiologist two weeks later, and he seemed so unconcerned that I felt stupid. I BEGGED him for a theory and he threw out a few possibilities like, my artery could have involunarily closed from a strange muscle contraction, or I could have had a micro-fiber die on my heart, or I could have had a heart virus so minor that it was almost sub-clinical.

With myself and so many other people with mysterious elevations in troponin, there has GOT to be some other explanation than some acute cardiac problem.