ArticleRenal failure2020
Value of the high-sensitivity troponin T assay for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in patients with and without renal insufficiency.
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- Usefulness of postoperative high-sensitive troponin T measurement and implications for defining type 5 infarction.Journal of cardiac surgery · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundCardiac troponins are important markers for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in general population; however, chronically-elevated troponins levels are often seen in patients with renal insufficiency, which reduce their diagnostic accuracy. The aim of our study was to access the diagnostic values of initial high-sensitive cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) and relative change of hs-cTnT for AMI in patients with and without renal insufficiency.
methodsCardiac care unit patients with elevated hs-cTnT levels in 2017-2018 were enrolled. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to evaluate initial hs-cTnT levels and relative changes after 3 h of enrollment for diagnosis of AMI in patients with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 60 mL/min/1.73 m
resultsOf 359 patients, 240 patients had low eGFR, and 119 patients had normal eGFR. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) for the initial hs-cTnT levels was 0.58 (95% CI, 0.5-0.65,
conclusionsRelative changes in hs-cTnT levels had better diagnostic accuracy than initial hs-cTnT levels.
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