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. 2017 Feb 11;12(2):147–155. doi: 10.1007/s11739-017-1612-1

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Fig. 3 — High-sensitivity cardiac troponin as a quantitative marker. AMI acute myocardial infarction, CAD coronary artery disease, CHF congestive heart failure, HI healthy individual, LVH left ventricular hypertrophy, PE pulmonary embolus, SAB Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia. The lower the level of hs-cTn, the higher the negative predictive value (NPV) for the presence of AMI. The higher the level of hs-cTn, the higher the positive predictive value (PPV) for the presence of AMI. Levels just above the 99th percentile have a low PPV for AM