Highlights that post-infection myocardial infarction incidence (7-8% in pneumococcal pneumonia) may be underestimated due to dismissing elevated troponin as 'troponin leak'.
Among patients who are hospitalized for pneumococcal pneumonia, the incidence of myocardial infarction is 7 to 8%. The true incidence of postinfection myocardial infarction may be higher than estimated, given the practice of attributing elevated troponin levels to “troponin leak.”
Musher et al. (2019) studied this question.