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  • Clinical Chemistry
  • Cardiology
  • Diagnostic Accuracy

Background:

  • Diagnostic pathways for myocardial infarction (MI) often use changes in high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) concentrations (delta) to assess patient risk.
  • The impact of analytical variation on these hs-cTn deltas, particularly near the 99th percentile, is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate how analytical variation in hs-cTnT delta measurements affects risk classification across different diagnostic pathways.
  • To compare the accuracy of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1 h and 0/2 h, High-STEACS, and common change criteria (3C) pathways.

Main Methods:

  • A yearlong accuracy study involving 41 analyzers across Canadian laboratories.
  • Monthly testing of three patient-based hs-cTnT samples to determine measured deltas.
  • Assessment of correct risk classification percentages and confidence intervals for each pathway using obtained deltas.

Main Results:

  • The median difference between measured and assigned hs-cTnT deltas was -1 ng/L.
  • The ESC 0/1 h and High-STEACS pathways showed lower correct classification rates for low deltas (35.3% and 36.2%, respectively).
  • The 3C and ESC 0/2 h pathways demonstrated higher correct classification rates (95.2% for low delta, 98.2% for high delta).

Conclusions:

  • Analytical variation in hs-cTn deltas significantly influences MI risk classification.
  • The 3C and ESC 0/2 h pathways exhibit robust performance with <5% misclassification for hs-cTnT.
  • Further research with hs-cTnI assays at lower concentrations is recommended to validate these findings.