Response to Letters Regarding Article, “High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin in the Distinction of Acute Myocardial Infarction From Acute Cardiac Noncoronary Artery Disease”

We thank Lippi et al1 for their interest in our work.2 They mention the fact that turnaround time may be >1 hour in many institutions. It is important to highlight that this observation does not interfere with our data or our conclusions. Our study refers to the time interval between the blood draw at presentation and the second blood draw. We fully agree with Lippi et al that, because of the turnaround time of ≈60 minutes, the results of the sample drawn at presentation will only become available for clinicians after 1 hour and the results of the 1-hour blood draw will only become available after 2 hours. We also fully agree with Lippi et al that …