Department of Emergency Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Internal Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
This study sought to evaluate if an undetectable (14 ng/l. During 30-day follow-up, 39 (0.44%) patients with undetectable hs-cTnT had a MI, of whom 15 (0.17%) had no ischemic ECG changes. The negative predictive value for MI within 30 days in patients with undetectable hs-cTnT and no ischemic ECG changes was 99.8% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 99.7 to 99.9). The negative predictive value for death was 100% (95% CI: 99.9 to 100).
All patients with chest pain who have an initial hs-cTnT level of