Abstract
BackgroundNatriuretic peptide testing is guideline recommended as an aid to the diagnosis of heart failure (HF). We sought to evaluate the performance of the ADVIA Centaur (Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Tarrytown, NY) NT-proBNPII assay (PBNPII) in emergency department (ED) dyspneic patients. MethodsEligible patients presented to the ED with dyspnea, with their gold standard diagnosis determined by up to 3 cardiologists blinded to the PBNPII results. Patients were stratified into 3 groups based on PBNPII resultsa rule out group of NT-proBNP<300 pg/mL, an age-specific rule in group using cutoffs of 450, 900, and 1800 pg/mL, for <50, 50–75, and > 75 years respectively, and an intermediate cohort for results between the rule out and rule in groups. ResultsOf 3128 eligible patients, 1148 (36.7 %) were adjudicated as acute heart failure (AHF). The gold standard AHF diagnosis rate was 3.7, 24.3, and 67.2 % for patients with NTproBNPII in the negative, indeterminate, and positive groups, respectively. Overall likelihood ratios (LR) were 0.07 (95 % CI: 0.05,0.09), 0.55 (0.45,0.67), and 3.53 (3.26,3.83) for the same groups, respectively. Individual LR+for age dependent cutoffs were 5.01 (4.25,5.91), 3.71 (3.25,4.24), and 2.38 (2.10,2.69), respectively. NTproBNPII increased with increasing severity of HF when stratified by NYHA classification. ConclusionsThe ADVIA Centaur PBNPII assay demonstrates acceptable clinical performance using the recommended single rule out and age dependent rule in cutoffs for an AHF diagnosis in dyspneic ED patients.
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