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The incremental value of troponin-I testing in patients with intermediate risk unstable angina
- Source :
- Clinical Cardiology. 27:646-651
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2004.
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Abstract
- Background: Classification of patients with unstable angina (UA) by Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) guidelines in the emergency department reliably stratifies risk of death or myocardial infarction (MI) for triage to outpatient evaluation (low-risk), hospitalization (high-risk), or additional testing (intermediate-risk). Cardiac troponin-I elevation may identify patients at higher risk, but the incremental value may vary with AHCPR clinical risk. Hypothesis: The objective of this study was to determine whether cardiac troponin-I had any additional value beyond triage based upon history, physical examination, and electrocardiogram, in the evaluation of patients with UA. Methods: In all, 212 consecutive patients with UA and normal serum creatine kinase (CK)-MB levels and elevated troponin-I were risk stratified by AHCPR guidelines to evaluate the incremental value of adding routine troponin-I measurements to our current model for risk stratification. Results: Primary events (death/nonfatal MI) occurred in 35% of high-risk, 15% of intermediate-risk, and 0% of low-risk patients (p < 0.001 by chisquare for trend). High troponin-I (≥ 2.0 ng/dl) occurred in 48% of high-risk, 21% of intermediate-risk, and 19% of low-risk patients. The remaining patients in each risk group had indeterminate troponin-I levels (≥0.4 < 2 ng/dl). Of those with high troponin-I, a primary event occurred in 36, 42, and 0% in the respective high-, intermediate-, and low-risk groups (p < 0.001). High troponin-I levels corresponded with a statistically significant increased rate of primary events only in patients at AHCPR intermediate risk: 42.4 vs. 7.3%, p < 0.001. Conclusion: The AHCPR guidelines risk stratify patients with UA. High troponin-I adds significant (p < 0.001) prognostic value in the patients at AHCPR intermediate risk and should be evaluated further in larger trials of such patients.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
biology
Unstable angina
business.industry
Physical examination
General Medicine
Emergency department
medicine.disease
Chest pain
Troponin
Internal medicine
Troponin I
Cardiology
medicine
biology.protein
Myocardial infarction
medicine.symptom
Risk factor
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 01609289
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Cardiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e1b226eb9e19575d75eb4816d521f40a