Human Heart-Type Fatty Acid-Binding Protein as an Early Diagnostic and Prognostic Marker in Acute Coronary Syndrome

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Although heart-type fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP) can be a marker of sarcolemmal injury due to acute myocardial ischemia, the diagnostic or prognostic value is not established in patients with acute chest pain. This multicenter prospective study aimed to determine the diagnostic and prognostic values of H-FABP in 133 patients presenting to an emergency room with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) by comparing with those of conventional biomarkers. H-FABP and myoglobin had greater positive results than did creatine kinase-MB or troponin T. Receiver operating characteristics analysis revealed that H-FABP was the most reliable for detection of ACS and that H-FABP had the greatest sensitivities for identification of patients requiring emergency hospitalization, coronary angiography, and interventional therapy within 7 days among the biomarkers. Thus, H-FABP can be an early diagnostic and prognostic biochemical marker, particularly within the first 6 h from the onset of chest symptoms, in patients with chest pain at an emergency department.

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In patients with acute coronary syndromes, it is desirable to identify a sensitive serum marker that is closely related to the degree of myocardial damage, provides prognostic information, and can be measured rapidly. We studied the prognostic value of cardiac troponin I levels in patients with unstable angina or non-Q-wave myocardial infarction. In a multicenter study, blood specimens from 1404 symptomatic patients were analyzed for cardiac troponin I, a serum marker not detected in the blood of healthy persons. The relation between mortality at 42 days and the level of cardiac troponin I in the specimen obtained on enrollment was determined both before and after adjustment for baseline characteristics. The mortality rate at 42 days was significantly higher in the 573 patients with cardiac troponin I levels of at least 0.4 ng per milliliter (21 deaths, or 3.7 percent) than in the 831 patients with cardiac troponin I levels below 0.4 ng per milliliter (8 deaths, or 1.0 percent; P or = 65 years). In patients with acute coronary syndromes, cardiac troponin I levels provide useful prognostic information and permit the early identification of patients with an increased risk of death.

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Emergency room triage of patients with acute chest pain by means of rapid testing for cardiac troponin T or troponin I.

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Evaluation of patients with acute chest pain in emergency rooms is time-consuming and expensive, and it often results in uncertain diagnoses. We prospectively investigated the usefulness of bedside tests for the detection of cardiac troponin T and troponin I in the evaluation of patients with acute chest pain. In 773 consecutive patients who had had acute chest pain for less than 12 hours without ST-segment elevation on their electrocardiograms, troponin T and troponin I status (positive or negative) was determined at least twice by sensitive, qualitative bedside tests based on the use of specific monoclonal antibodies. Testing was performed on arrival and four or more hours later so that one sample was taken at least six hours after the onset of pain. The troponin T results were made available to the treating physicians. Troponin T tests were positive in 123 patients (16 percent), and troponin I tests were positive in 171 patients (22 percent). Among 47 patients with evolving myocardial infarction, troponin T tests were positive in 44 (94 percent) and troponin I tests were positive in all 47. Among 315 patients with unstable angina, troponin T tests were positive in 70 patients (22 percent), and troponin I tests were positive in 114 patients (36 percent). During 30 days of follow-up, there were 20 deaths and 14 nonfatal myocardial infarctions. Troponin T and troponin I proved to be strong, independent predictors of cardiac events. The event rates in patients with negative tests were only 1.1 percent for troponin T and 0.3 percent for troponin I. Bedside tests for cardiac-specific troponins are highly sensitive for the early detection of myocardial-cell injury in acute coronary syndromes. Negative test results are associated with low risk and allow rapid and safe discharge of patients with an episode of acute chest pain from the emergency room.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312

Title: Cardiology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0008-6312

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751

Publication date Subscription-year: 2003

Publication date (Print): April 2003

Publication date (Electronic): 25 April 2003

Volume: 99

Issue: 2

Pages: 96-104

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^aSecond Department of Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and ^bDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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Publisher ID: 69726 Other ID: Cardiology 2003;99:96–104

DOI: 10.1159/000069726

PubMed ID: 12711885

SO-VID: e76d3a8d-dd90-4106-8cb3-c780ed2dc2a8

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Date received : 22 July 2002

Date accepted : 16 December 2002

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Cardiac-specific troponin I levels to predict the risk of mortality in patients with acute coronary syndromes.

Emergency room triage of patients with acute chest pain by means of rapid testing for cardiac troponin T or troponin I.

Troponin concentrations for stratification of patients with acute coronary syndromes in relation to therapeutic efficacy of tirofiban

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