The problems in detection and clinical application of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin

Troponin is an important biomarker of acute coronary syndrome.Especially high-sensitivity cardiac troponin in recent years played an important role for the early diagnosis and prognosis of myocardial infarction.Recommendations for the use of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin have been issued in some guidelines.But the clinical doctors and laboratory workers still have many problems in practice.Some problems in high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assay and the clinical application were introduced here.Suggestions were also put up from international organizations,including unified high-sensitivity cardiac troponin name,unit,establish healthy population,selection guidelines to identify the 99th percentile value.（Chin J Lab Med,2014,37: 485-488） Key words: Troponin; Biological markers; Sensitivity and specificity; Myocardial infarction