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Smulders, MW; Kietselaer, BLJH; Schalla, S; Bucerius, J; Jaarsma, C; van Dieijen-Visser, MP; Mingels, AMA; Brunner-La Rocca, HP; Post, M; Das, M; Crijns, HJGM; Wildberger, JE; Bekkers, SCAM.
Acute chest pain in the high-sensitivity cardiac troponin era: A changing role for noninvasive imaging?
AM HEART J. 2016; 177: 102-111. Doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2016.03.025
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Co-authors Med Uni Graz: Bucerius Jan Alexander
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Abstract:: Management of patients with acute chest pain remains challenging. Cardiac biomarker testing reduces the likelihood of erroneously discharging patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Despite normal contemporary troponins, physicians have still been reluctant to discharge patients without additional testing. Nowadays, the extremely high negative predictive value of current high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) assays challenges this need. However, the decreased specificity of hs-cTn assays to diagnose AMI poses a new problem as noncoronary diseases (eg, pulmonary embolism, myocarditis, cardiomyopathies, hypertension, renal failure, etc) may also cause elevated hs-cTn levels. Subjecting patients with noncoronary diseases to unnecessary pharmacological therapy or invasive procedures must be prevented. Attempts to improve the positive predictive value to diagnose AMI by defining higher initial cutoff values or dynamic changes over time inherently lower the sensitivity of troponin assays. In this review, we anticipate a potential changing role of noninvasive imaging from ruling out myocardial disease when troponin values are normal toward characterizing myocardial disease when hs-cTn values are (mildly) abnormal.