If a stress echo shows that a 28 year old female has no heart damage, but she has elevated troponin levels, .11. Can troponin levels increase due to Salmonella infection? Can someone always have an elevated troponin level with no evidence to link in to heart damage? The troponin level that is elevated is the cardiac enzyme... Salmonella can cause a myriad of 'unrelated effects' in your body. Depending on how strong you react to it can even simulate labor contractions...even in male patients.
In that light I don't see why not this.
When Salmonella poisoning has been established you can not trust levels to be indicators for what they are used for normally. Depending on the method, the test that 'reads' those levels may be wrong.
You can not use this as an answer in an exam as it does not have any 'legal' reference. By some coincidence I'm not medical proof what so ever. ;-) | 