Journal article
Validation of presentation and 3 h high-sensitivity troponin to rule-in and rule-out acute myocardial infarction
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: International guidelines to rule-in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients presenting with chest pain to the emergency department (ED) recommend an algorithm using high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) sampling on presentation and 3 h following presentation. We tested the diagnostic accuracy of this algorithm by pooling data from five distinct cohorts from three countries of prospectively recruited patients with …
Authors
Pickering JW; Greenslade JH; Cullen L; Flaws D; Parsonage W; George P; Worster A; Kavsak PA; Than MP
Journal
Heart, Vol. 102, No. 16,
Publisher
BMJ
Publication Date
August 15, 2016
DOI
10.1136/heartjnl-2015-308505
ISSN
1355-6037