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False Positive Troponin Levels due to Heterophil Antibodies in a Pregnant Woman

Positive troponin test results in peripheral blood can be detected either during myocardial injury or from falsely positive test results. In this report, we present the positive results of a troponin test in a 24-year-old pregnant woman referred to the emergency department with atypical chest pain,...

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Autores principales: KAPLAN, Abdullah, ORHAN, Nuri, İLHAN’, Erkan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4909945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27331194
http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/1304.7361.2014.00378
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description Positive troponin test results in peripheral blood can be detected either during myocardial injury or from falsely positive test results. In this report, we present the positive results of a troponin test in a 24-year-old pregnant woman referred to the emergency department with atypical chest pain, and the clinical algorithm that we used to make the correct diagnosis. This patient presented with the same complaint of chest pain at different times while positive troponin levels were detected. In the absence of signs of myocardial injury, we suspected that heterophil antibodies were playing a major role. Further examinations revealed heterophil antibodies that could cross react with the troponin tests in peripheral blood.
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spelling pubmed-49099452016-06-21 False Positive Troponin Levels due to Heterophil Antibodies in a Pregnant Woman KAPLAN, Abdullah ORHAN, Nuri İLHAN’, Erkan Turk J Emerg Med Case Report Positive troponin test results in peripheral blood can be detected either during myocardial injury or from falsely positive test results. In this report, we present the positive results of a troponin test in a 24-year-old pregnant woman referred to the emergency department with atypical chest pain, and the clinical algorithm that we used to make the correct diagnosis. This patient presented with the same complaint of chest pain at different times while positive troponin levels were detected. In the absence of signs of myocardial injury, we suspected that heterophil antibodies were playing a major role. Further examinations revealed heterophil antibodies that could cross react with the troponin tests in peripheral blood. Elsevier 2016-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4909945/ /pubmed/27331194 http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/1304.7361.2014.00378 Text en © 2015 Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey. Production and Hosting by Elsevier B.V. Originally published in [2015] by Kare Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4909945/
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