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Is There A Faster Way To Diagnose Heart Disease Patient?
 

Should a person have symptoms like shortness of breath and chest pain, the first thing comes to anybody’s mind is to admit this person to the emergency department of a hospital. This is because he or she might be a possible candidate of heart attack.

When the heart does not get enough amount of oxygen, which is exactly what happens with a heart attack, the heart will suffer an irreversible damage. However, if heart attack could be detected earlier, then earlier treatment could possibly minimize the damage to the heart muscle.

Nevertheless, not all people having such symptoms are victims of heart attack. Sometimes the symptoms could be due to unstable angina, a more chronic heart condition or other medical conditions that have nothing to do with the heart. As such, the test that is required to run on these patients should be able to confirm whether the patient has heart attack within the shortest period of time.

Thanks to the new advanced highly sensitive Troponin T tests that could detect heart-related risks several hours earlier than the previous Troponin T test. Using the new test, victims of heart attack could have their conditions accurately diagnosed within 3 to 4 hours after they are admitted to the hospital when they have symptoms like chest pains or shortness of breath.

What is troponin, anyway, and why is it so important?

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Troponin is a complex of 3 regulatory proteins that is integral to muscle contraction in skeletal and cardiac muscle. Those found in the heart are known as cardiac troponins, which have 2 main types: Troponin T and Troponin I.

Cardiac troponins are biomarkers released into the blood when heart muscle cells are damaged, and these biomarkers can be picked up by tests such as Troponin T test. The levels of these markers can remain elevated in the blood for an extended period of time. This makes them good indicators of heart disease. As the new Troponin T test does not pick up other protein released from other parts of the body, it has 100 percent specificity for heart muscle.

The main weakness of the older generation tests for heart attack is their inability to measure troponin level in the blood when it is low. Unfortunately, even a small elevation in cardiac troponin might indicate damage in the heart and require medical treatment.

If heart attack is ruled out in a person with continuing or recurring chest pain, then an increased troponin level could mean that this person might have heart muscle ischemia (a decreased supply of oxygenated blood to the body), and is at an increased risk for a future serious heart event.

While the main goal is to prevent a heart attack for a patient, doctors do want to prevent a second attack as well. A skilled doctor can make use of the new Troponin T test to monitor the level of changes to ascertain whether a patient is having an attack or a chronic heart disease such as heart valve disease.

In recent years, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the World Heart Federation (WHF) have included cardiac troponins as the preferred biomarkers for the diagnosis of heart attack and for measuring the risk of patients with acute coronary syndromes.

Meanwhile, health experts have already considered using Troponin T as a diagnostic tool for patients with no symptoms. However, this option is still being researched and would only be employed as an additional tool to other established tests.

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