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- Title
Grossly Elevated False-Positive High-Sensitivity Troponin I Due to Heterophilic Antimouse IgG1 Antibodies.
- Authors
Lewis, John G.; Connolly, Alison J. L.; Ploeg, Hank; Phillips, Ian J.; King, Richard I.; Elder, Peter A.; Florkowski, Christopher M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the case of a 77-year-old woman with a history of central chest pain, suspicious of acute coronary syndrome. Topics covered include strategies to rule out analytically false results, one of the most frequent causes of false-positive results, and hallmarks of heterophilic antibody interference.
- Subjects
CHEST pain; DISEASES in older women; ACUTE coronary syndrome; CORONARY disease; IMMUNOGLOBULINS
- Publication
Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, 2020, Vol 5, Issue 4, p815
- ISSN
2475-7241
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jalm/jfaa024