Wide or unselected use of high sensitivity cardiac troponin testing frequently yields elevated concentrations reflecting myocardial injury rather than myocardial infarction.
Cohort
myocardial infarction
high sensitivity cardiac troponin testing
diagnosis of myocardial infarction
When high sensitivity cardiac troponin testing is performed widely or without previous clinical assessment, elevated troponin concentrations are common and predominantly reflect myocardial injury rather than myocardial infarction. These observations highlight how selection of patients for cardiac troponin testing varies across healthcare settings and markedly influences the positive predictive value for a diagnosis of myocardial infarction.
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Anoop Shah
Interventional Cardiology
Yader Sandoval
Interventional Cardiology
Ala Noaman
University of Edinburgh
ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam)
BMJ
University of Minnesota
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
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Shah et al. (Tue,) conducted a cohort in myocardial infarction. high sensitivity cardiac troponin testing was evaluated on diagnosis of myocardial infarction. Wide or unselected use of high sensitivity cardiac troponin testing frequently yields elevated concentrations reflecting myocardial injury rather than myocardial infarction.
synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1c930023b9c7180b2ff7aa — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j4788