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

Table 3

Final diagnosis for all patients and percentages of patients with a single blood draw and a baseline (T0) troponin I value above the adopted threshold by TnI and hsTnI. ACS = acute coronary syndrome; HF = heart failure; GI = gastrointestinal; NSCP = nonspecific chest pain.

Diagnosis	N	Single; blood draw	cTnI above; threshold at T0	hs-cTnI above; threshold at T0
ACS	45	11.1%	81.6%	83.7%
Severe; arrhythmia	45	75.6%	24.4%	31.1%
Acute HF	22	54.5%	54.5%	77.3%
Lung disease	46	87.0%	21.7%	37.0%
Neurological; disease	74	86.5%	6.8%	10.8%
GI disease	46	82.6%	10.9%	15.2%
NSCP	92	58.7%	4.3%	7.6%
Other	56	83.9%	5.4%	21.4%
Total	426	69.0%	19.2%	27.0%