Diagnostische Vergleichbarkeit der kardialen Troponine I und T

by Laura Elisa Fraune
Doctoral thesis
Date of Examination:2022-11-14
Date of issue:2022-11-14
Advisor:Dr. Abass Eidizadeh
Referee:Prof. Dr. Abdul Rahman Asif
Referee:PD Dr. Anja Sandek
Persistent Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-9536

 

 

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Abstract

English

Cardiac troponins are crucial for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. Despite known differences in their diagnostic implication, there are no recommendations for only one of the two troponins, cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and troponin T (cTnT) so far. In an everyday routine diagnostic, cTnT (Roche) as well as cTnI (Abbott) were measured in 5667 samples from 3264 patient cases. We investigated the number of identical or discrepant troponin findings. Regarding cTnI, we considered both, sex-dependent and unisex cutoffs. In particular, the number of cTnT positive and cTnI negative results was strikingly high in 14.0% of cTnT positive samples and increases to 23.8% by using sex-specific cTnI cutoffs. This group was considerably greater than the group of cTnI positive and cTnT negative results, also after elimination of patients with an eGFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m2. Comparing the troponin cases with a dynamic increase or decrease between two measurements, we saw a balanced number of discrepant cases (between cTnT+/cTnI- and cTnT-/cTnI+), which was, however, still present. Using ROC analysis, sex-dependent cutoffs improved sensitivity and specificity of cTnI. This study shows in a large cohort that comparing the two cardiac troponins does not amount to identical analytical results. Consideration of sex-dependent cutoffs may improve sensitivity and specificity.
Keywords: 99th percentile upper reference limit; cardiac biomarker; cutoffs; myocardial infarction; sex-specific; troponin I; troponin T
 
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