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CLINICAL RESEARCH IN CARDIOLOGY
Volume 100, Issue 3, Pages 209-215Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-010-0230-y
Keywords
High sensitive troponin T; Cardiac necrosis; Early detection; Myoglobin; h-FABP
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- Roche Diagnostics, Germany
- Roche Diagnostics MSD Germany
- Roche Diagnostics and Mitsubishi Chemicals
- Roche Diagnostics
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We sought to determine the performance of the new high sensitivity cardiac troponin T assay (TnThs) for early diagnosis of myocardial infarction in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and compare it with the fourth generation cTnT assay, myoglobin and heart-type fatty acid binding protein (h-FABP). Ninety-four patients with diagnosis of suspected ACS without ST-segment elevation admitted to our chest pain unit were included. Patients were divided according to time from onset of symptoms to presentation into an early presenter group (< 4 h) and a late presenter group (a parts per thousand yen4 h). A median of six samples (range 2-8) were available per patient. The diagnostic performance of TnThs was assessed using ROC analysis. Areas under the curve (AUC) of baseline and follow-up results of TnThs, cTnT, myoglobin, and h-FABP were compared using c statistics. The TnThs assay allows an excellent prediction of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (non-STEMI) at presentation, particularly among late presenters. A follow-up sample improves diagnostic performance in a time-dependent manner. The AUC of TnThs was superior to cTnT at all time points. The performance of TnThs was at least as good as myoglobin and h-FABP at presentation and during follow-up. A baseline sample of TnThs allows an earlier prediction of non-STEMI than the less sensitive and precise fourth generation cTnT assay. Probably, this excellent performance of TnThs at baseline and follow-up could obviate the need for other early markers of necrosis in future.
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