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

Table 6

Presumptive diagnosis based on the results for hsTnI on the first draw (baseline) according to the ESC guidelines [2]. AMI = acute myocardial infarction. Numbers in brackets represent percentages of total cases indicated in the last column.

	Rule in; (hsTnI >52 ng/L)	Observation	Rule out; (hsTnI <2 ng/L)	Total; cases
ACS	28 (62.2%)	17 (37.8%)	0	45
No ACS	40 (10.5%)	287 (75.3%)	54 (14.2%)	381