• Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. · Apr 1998

    Evaluation of a proposed panel of cardiac markers for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in patients with atraumatic chest pain.

    • C C Chang, M P Ip, R M Hsu, and T Vrobel.
    • Department of Pathology, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44109-1998, USA.
    • Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 1998 Apr 1;122(4):320-4.

    ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to evaluate retrospectively the efficacy of a proposed panel of three cardiac markers (myoglobin, creatine kinase-MB mass [CK-MB], and cardiac troponin I) in the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients with atraumatic chest pain.DesignA total of 110 patients admitted for the evaluation of atraumatic chest pain were examined. Forty-one of these patients were diagnosed with AMI.ResultsFive of the 41 patients with AMI had abnormally elevated myoglobin levels, whereas values of CK-MB and/or cardiac troponin I remained negative. Creatine kinase-MB mass alone had a sensitivity of 92.7%, a specificity of 89.9%, a positive predictive value of 84.4%, and a negative predictive value of 95.0% for the diagnosis of AMI. Cardiac troponin I alone had a sensitivity of 90.2%, a specificity of 95.7%, a positive predictive value of 92.5%, and a negative predictive value of 94.3% for the diagnosis of AMI. Cardiac troponin I is a more specific marker for the diagnosis of AMI than CK-MB, particularly in patients with chronic renal failure who are evaluated for chest pain. The combination of CK-MB and cardiac troponin I increased the sensitivity to 100% and the negative predictive value to 100% and had a specificity of 88.4% and a positive predictive value of 83.7%. The panel was diagnostic for all patients with AMI within 12 hours after admission.ConclusionsOur preliminary results indicate that this panel is highly effective for evaluation of AMI in patients with atraumatic chest pain. Elevated myoglobin levels were useful in detecting patients at high risk for AMI who initially were not detected with other markers. The combination of CK-MB and cardiac troponin I provided much higher sensitivity and had a much higher negative predictive value for the evaluation of AMI than cardiac troponin I or CK-MB alone. The 100% negative predictive value is particularly important because it indicates that patients with negative CK-MB and cardiac troponin I values 12 hours after admission have a negligible likelihood of AMI.

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