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. 2018 Feb;29(2):636-643.
doi: 10.1681/ASN.2017030341. Epub 2017 Oct 27.

Renal Dysfunction Influences the Diagnostic and Prognostic Performance of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I

Ian Gunsolus  1 , Yader Sandoval  2   3   4 , Stephen W Smith  5 , Anne Sexter  6 , Karen Schulz  4 , Charles A Herzog  6   7 , Fred S Apple  8   9
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Renal Dysfunction Influences the Diagnostic and Prognostic Performance of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I

Ian Gunsolus et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018 Feb.

Abstract

Measures of cardiac troponin (cTn) may have lower specificity for myocardial infarction in patients with CKD. We examined the diagnostic accuracy of baseline and serial high-sensitivity cTnI (hs-cTnI) measurements for myocardial infarction and 30- and 180-day mortality according to renal function. hs-cTnI was measured (Abbott assay) using sex-specific 99th percentiles (women, 16 ng/L; men, 34 ng/L) in 1555 adults presenting to the emergency department with symptoms suggesting ischemia (NCT02060760). Myocardial infarction was adjudicated along universal definition classification. Renal function did not significantly affect sensitivity or negative predictive values. Specificity decreased with impaired renal function from 93%-95% with normal function (eGFR≥90 ml/min per 1.73 m2; n=722) to 57%-61% with severely impaired renal function (eGFR<30 ml/min per 1.73 m2; n=81) and 40%-41% on dialysis (n=78). Positive predictive values decreased with decreasing renal function from 51%-57% with normal function to 27%-42% with severely impaired function and 15%-32% on dialysis. Receiver operating characteristic curve areas trended lower at baseline and 3 hours with renal impairment. Mortality increased significantly with increasing hs-cTnI tertile (1.3%, 6.0%, and 10.4%, respectively). Patients with hs-cTnI concentration exceeding concentrations in the 99th percentiles had a mortality rate (11.7%) significantly higher than that of patients with concentrations between 99th percentile concentrations and limit of detection (6.2%) or below limit of detection (1.1%). Renal dysfunction and dialysis reduced the rule-in performance but not the rule-out performance of hs-cTnI for myocardial infarction, and mortality increased in patients with higher hs-cTnI concentrations and any level of renal dysfunction.

Keywords: cardiac troponin; chronic kidney disease; myocardial infarction; outcomes.

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Figure 1.
Mortality increased significantly with increasing hs-cTnI by tertile. Kaplan–Meier survival curves for hs-cTnI by tertile.
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Figure 2.
Compared with patients with hs-cTnT concentrations less than LoD, patients with measurable hs-cTnI concentrations between the LoD and the 99th percentile had higher mortality. Kaplan–Meier survival curves by undetectable, normal, and increased hs-cTnI concentrations. ED, emergency department.
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Figure 3.
Mortality rates increased with respect to renal impairment independent of hs-cTnI. Kaplan–Meier survival curves with respect to variation in renal function.
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