Monday, February 12, 2018

How to Interpret Cardiac Troponin Levels

The conclusion of this article published in Circulation really brings the message home with the every - increasing sensitivity and by default a drop on the ROC curve for 1- specificity .
One physician commented :
“When troponin was a lousy assay it was a great test, but now that it’s becoming a great assay, it’s getting to be a lousy test.”
Nevertheless this publication clarifies a lot and is a good guide to use the hs -TnT in the clinical arena.

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