Volume 9, Number 4, April 2002

Cardiac troponins and the risk stratification of chest pain
Archana Rao, Mandie Evans

We present three cases of patients who had chest pain with abnormal but non-diagnostic ECGs and negative troponin I, carried out in the appropriate time frame. All three went on to have extensive coronary artery disease demonstrated on coronary angiogram. These cases illustrate that use of troponin I alone as a marker for risk stratification of cardiac chest pain is not adequate: above all, a high index of clinical suspicion is of paramount importance.

Br J Cardiol 2002;9:221-222.

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