April 23, 2021
The hunt continues for a simple lab test that might help clinicians expeditiously sort out which type of MI is afflicting patients who present to the emergency department with chest pain, so as to streamline care. The latest effort, which evaluated 17 novel CV biomarkers, failed to uncover any that offered much in the way of help.
None was significantly better at discriminating between type 1 and type 2 MI when compared with troponins measured using high-sensitivity assays, which themselves have only modest diagnostic value for this purpose, Thomas Nestelberger, MD (Vancouver General Hospital, Canada, and University Hospital Basel, Switzerland), and colleagues report in a study published online April 21, 2021, ahead of print in