Delayed diagnosis and treatment of extreme hypertriglyceridemia due to rejection of a lipemic sample

INTRODUCTION: Most laboratories routinely determine haemolysis, icterus and lipemia indices to identify lipemic samples and reject potentially affected results. Hypertriglyceridemia is the most common cause of lipemia and severe hypertriglyceridemia (≥ 11.3 mmol/L) is a major risk factor of acute pa...

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Autores principales: Van Elslande, Jan, Hijjit, Samira, De Vusser, Katrien, Langlois, Michel, Meijers, Björn, Mertens, Ann, Van der Schueren, Bart, Frans, Glynis, Vermeersch, Pieter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine 2021
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Preanalytical Mysteries
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8047784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33927560
http://dx.doi.org/10.11613/BM.2021.021002

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