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Performance of highly sensitive cardiac troponin T assay to detect ischaemia at PET-CT in low-risk patients with acute coronary syndrome: a prospective observational study.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Highly sensitive troponin T (hs-TnT) assay has improved clinical decision-making for patients admitted with chest pain. However, this assay's performance in detecting myocardial ischaemia in a lowrisk population has been poorly documented. PURPOSE:To assess hs-TnT assay's performance to detect myocardial ischaemia at positron emission tomography/CT (PET-CT) in low-risk patients admitted with chest pain. METHODS:Patients admitted for chest pain with a nonconclusive ECG and negative standard cardiac troponin T results at admission and after 6 hours were prospectively enrolled. Their hs-TnT samples were at T0, T2 and T6. Physicians were blinded to hs-TnT results. All patients underwent a PET-CT at rest and during adenosine-induced stress. All patients with a positive PET-CT result underwent a coronary angiography. RESULTS:Forty-eight patients were included. Six had ischaemia at PET-CT. All of them had ?1 significant stenosis at coronary angiography. Areas under the curve (95% CI) for predicting significant ischaemia at PET-CT using hs-TnT were 0.764 (0.515 to 1.000) at T0, 0.812(0.616 to 1.000) at T2 and 0.813(0.638 to 0.989) at T6. The receiver operating characteristicbased optimal cut-off value for hs-TnT at T0, T2 and T6 needed to exclude significant ischaemia at PET-CT was <4 ng/L. Using this value, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of hs-TnT to predict significant ischaemia were 83%/38%/16%/94% at T0, 100%/40%/19%/100% at T2 and 100%/43%/20%/100% at T6, respectively. CONCLUSIONS:Our findings suggest that in low-risk patients, using the hs-TnT assay with a cut-off value of 4 ng/L demonstrates excellent negative predictive value to exclude myocardial ischaemia detection at PET-CT, at the expense of weak specificity and positive predictive value. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER:ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01374607.

SUBMITTER: Morawiec B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734281 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Performance of highly sensitive cardiac troponin T assay to detect ischaemia at PET-CT in low-risk patients with acute coronary syndrome: a prospective observational study.

Morawiec Beata B   Fournier Stephane S   Tapponnier Maxime M   Prior John O JO   Monney Pierre P   Dunet Vincent V   Lauriers Nathalie N   Recordon Frederique F   Trana Catalina C   Iglesias Juan-Fernando JF   Kawecki Damian D   Boulat Olivier O   Bardy Daniel D   Lamsidri Sabine S   Eeckhout Eric E   Hugli Olivier O   Muller Olivier O  

BMJ open 20170710 7


<h4>Background</h4>Highly sensitive troponin T (hs-TnT) assay has improved clinical decision-making for patients admitted with chest pain. However, this assay's performance in detecting myocardial ischaemia in a lowrisk population has been poorly documented.<h4>Purpose</h4>To assess hs-TnT assay's performance to detect myocardial ischaemia at positron emission tomography/CT (PET-CT) in low-risk patients admitted with chest pain.<h4>Methods</h4>Patients admitted for chest pain with a nonconclusiv  ...[more]

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