The article offers a brief survey of cardiac markers. It briefly outlines the history of those, which have been previously introduced in routine practice and evaluated potential importance of those, which are presently under laboratory and clinical investigation. The author refers to some new literature sources on the problem.

        Key words: cardiac markers, acute coronary syndrome, acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, ischemia, proteins of acute phase, creatine kinase, troponins, myoglobin, fatty acid-binding protein, cholin, natriuretic peptides.