Analytic and Clinical Evaluation of the Abbott AxSYM Cardiac Troponin I Form

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well good evening or good afternoon my name is chris florkovsky i am a chemical pathologist from canterbury health laboratories in christchurch new zealand and today i'm going to talk about interpretive commenting with the focus on cardiac troponins areas to be covered include the definitions of myocardial infarction why troponins are the preferred biomarker rule in versus rule out the importance of clinical context i'm going to talk about accelerated diagnostic pathways which is an area where i've had a lot of involvement in work we'll talk about special cases including stress cardiomyopathy and i'll say something about macrotroponins so here is a troponin result 169 nanograms per liter we use abbott high sensitivity troponin i and the reference interval up to 99th percentile for females and we have a one-size-fits-all comment that states a diagnosis of ami requires a change in troponin with at least one elevated value in the context of suspected cardiac ischemia most healthy individu