title: Usefulness of a new rapid bedside troponin T assay in patients with chest pain.
abstract: We evaluated the usefulness of a rapid, qualitative, bedside immunoassay for cardiac-specific troponin T in patients with chest pain. A concordant result between quantitative troponin T and qualitative troponin T assay was observed in 183 (96%) tests. The sensitivity of the rapid troponin T assay for detecting acute myocardial infarction increased significantly according to the number of hours elapsed after onset of chest pain from 17% for patients presenting within 4 h to 71% for patients presenting in the time interval of greater than 8 h from onset of chest pain (P < 0.001). Specificity ranged from 83 to 93% in the three time intervals evaluated. A concordant result between CK-MB-measurement and rapid troponin T assay was observed in 159 (83%) tests. In 14/191 tests a positive rapid troponin T and a negative CK-MB assay was observed. In 9/14 (64%) cases this result was true positive for the rapid troponin T assay and in 5/14 (36%) cases false negative. As sensitivity and specificity of the rapid troponin T assay are comparable with CK-MB measurements, rapid troponin T assay is a simple and useful laboratory tool for the bedside triage in patients with chest pain.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Notfallmedizin, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Hirschl
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lechleitner
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Friedrich
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sint
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sterz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Binder
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dienstl
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Laggner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000097:blood; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007118:Immunoassay; D007527:Isoenzymes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors; D014336:Troponin / Q000097:blood*; D020107:Troponin T
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D007527:Isoenzymes; D014336:Troponin; D020107:Troponin T; D003402:Creatine Kinase