False Positive Troponin I Rendering Two Admissions for "Recurrent Acute Myopericarditis"

INTRODUCTIONSince there are many manufacturers of cardiac troponin I assays, the true incidence of a false positive result is unknown. The authors report a case of an 18-year-old patient with previous history of recurrent myopericarditis and admitted to hospital twice again with a suspicious of myop...

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Published inThe open cardiovascular medicine journal Vol. 12; pp. 55 - 58
Main Authors Marinheiro, Rita, Amador, Pedro, Parreira, Leonor, Rato, Quitéria, Caria, Rui
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.01.2018
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Summary:INTRODUCTIONSince there are many manufacturers of cardiac troponin I assays, the true incidence of a false positive result is unknown. The authors report a case of an 18-year-old patient with previous history of recurrent myopericarditis and admitted to hospital twice again with a suspicious of myopericarditis. CONCLUSIONTroponin I was found to be a false positive and alkaline phosphatase interference was proved to have been the responsible for this.
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ISSN:1874-1924
1874-1924
DOI:10.2174/1874192401812010055