High-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays and acute coronary syndrome: a matter of sex?

E Rocco, G La Rosa, G Liuzzo… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Advances in technology have led to an improvement in the ability to detect and quantify
acute cardiomyocyte injury with the measurement of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin as …

Prognostic Value of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin in Women

G Bisaccia, F Ricci, MY Khanji, G Gaggi, A Di Credico… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
High-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays have become the gold standard for diagnosing
acute and chronic myocardial injury. The detection of troponin levels beyond the 99th …

Highly sensitive cardiac troponins: the evidence behind sex‐specific cutoffs

PM Bhatia, LB Daniels - Journal of the American Heart Association, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Emergence of various highly sensitive cardiac troponin assays into clinical practice provides
a new tool for clinicians diagnosing acute coronary syndrome. These assays also create a …

Optimal detection of acute myocardial injury and infarction with cardiac troponin: beyond the 99th Percentile, into the high-sensitivity era

KE Mullins, RH Christenson - Current Cardiology Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Cardiac troponin (cTn) is the biomarker of choice for the
diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (MI); use of this biomarker has centered around the …

Diagnostic and prognostic value of the sex-specific 99th percentile of four high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays in patients with suspected myocardial infarction

J Lehmacher, NA Sörensen… - … Heart Journal: Acute …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Aims High-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) assays are used for detection of myocardial
infarction (MI). Ninety-ninth percentiles show wide inter-assay variation. The use of sex …

Sex-specific thresholds of high-sensitivity troponin in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome

KK Lee, AV Ferry, A Anand, FE Strachan… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - jacc.org
Background: Major disparities between women and men in the diagnosis, management, and
outcomes of acute coronary syndrome are well recognized. Objectives: The aim of this study …

Gender-specific diagnostic performance of a new high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I assay for detection of acute myocardial infarction

N Schofer, FJ Brunner, M Schlüter… - … Heart Journal: Acute …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background The determination of cardiac troponin is essential for diagnosing myocardial
infarction. A troponin I assay has recently been developed that provides the highest …

Cardiac troponin thresholds and kinetics to differentiate myocardial injury and myocardial infarction

R Wereski, DM Kimenai, C Taggart, D Doudesis… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Although the 99th percentile is the recommended diagnostic threshold for
myocardial infarction, some guidelines also advocate the use of higher troponin thresholds …

The clinical need for high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays for acute coronary syndromes and the role for serial testing

AHB Wu, AS Jaffe - American heart journal, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Cardiac troponin is the biomarker of choice for the serologic diagnosis of
acute coronary syndromes. International cardiology and laboratory medicine guidelines …

Clinical applications of highly sensitive troponin assays

AA Mohammed, JL Januzzi Jr - Cardiology in review, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Cardiac troponin is the biomarker of choice for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.
Recent consensus recommendations have adopted a concentration of troponin above the …