A Rational Adoption of the High Sensitive Assay for Cardiac Troponin I in Diagnostic Routine

Table 1

Main features of the assays for cardiac troponin I (TnI) employed for the study. n.a. = not available.

	Contemporary TnI	High sensitive TnI
Limit of blank (LoB)	n.a.	0.7–1.3 ng/L
Limit of detection (LoD)	<10 ng/L	1.1–1.9 ng/L
Limit of quantitation (LoQ)	<100 ng/L (adopted: 44 ng/L)	4.0–10 ng/L
Gender-specific 99th percentile	n.a.	Females: 15.6 ng/mL
		Males: 34.2 ng/L