Cardiac troponin T in unstable angina

doi:10.1136/bmj.313.7068.1330a

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Troponin T could be used to identify patients needing early treatment

A S Wierzbicki,
T M Reynolds

Senior lecturer in chemical pathology St Thomas's Hospital, London SE1 7EH
Consultant chemical pathologist Burton Hospitals, Burton on Trent DE13 0RB

EDITOR,—The paper by Peter Stubbs and colleagues has many interesting implications for the practical care of patients with chest pain1 and correlates well with other studies.2 The clinical data presented in the authors' table 1 show that the group who were positive for troponin T had a stormier clinical course and stayed in hospital 2.5 days longer than the group who were negative for troponin T. Yet none …