Clinical Utility of Cardiac Troponin I and Cardiac Troponin T Measurements

Adamcová, Michaela; Kokštein, Zdeněk; Vávrová, Jaroslava

doi:10.14712/18059694.2020.50

Acta Medica > Archive > 1997, Vol. 40 > Issue 4 > Clinical Utility of Cardiac Troponin I…

Acta Med. 1997, 40: 83-87

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2020.50

Clinical Utility of Cardiac Troponin I and Cardiac Troponin T Measurements

Michaela Adamcová^a, Zdeněk Kokštein^b, Jaroslava Vávrová^c

^aDepartment of Physiology, Charles University, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
^bDepartment of Pediatrics, University Hospital, Charles University, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
^cInstitute for Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnosis, University Hospital, Charles University, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

Received October 1, 1997
Accepted November 1, 1997

The measurement of CK-MB remains the test of choice for confirmation or exclusion of AMI and probably will remain the test of choice for routine diagnosis in the near future. Nowadays determination of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and cardiac troponin I (cTnI) as a method relatively expensive and time-consuming should be restricted to clinical settings that really require their high specificity.