Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation: An Unusual Differential Diagnosis of Myocardial Disease

We present the case of a female patient who developed persistently elevated levels of cardiac troponin (cTn) after a previous episode of clinically presumed myocarditis. Extensive investigation concluded that the presence of heterophile antibodies was causing false positive cTn elevation. (Level of...

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Autores principales: Graça Santos, Luís, Ribeiro Carvalho, Rita, Montenegro Sá, Fernando, Soares, Francisco, Pernencar, Sidarth, Castro, Ricardo, Morais, João
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.01.011
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author Graça Santos, Luís
Ribeiro Carvalho, Rita
Montenegro Sá, Fernando
Soares, Francisco
Pernencar, Sidarth
Castro, Ricardo
Morais, João
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description We present the case of a female patient who developed persistently elevated levels of cardiac troponin (cTn) after a previous episode of clinically presumed myocarditis. Extensive investigation concluded that the presence of heterophile antibodies was causing false positive cTn elevation. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)
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spelling pubmed-83116872021-07-26 Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation: An Unusual Differential Diagnosis of Myocardial Disease Graça Santos, Luís Ribeiro Carvalho, Rita Montenegro Sá, Fernando Soares, Francisco Pernencar, Sidarth Castro, Ricardo Morais, João JACC Case Rep Case Report We present the case of a female patient who developed persistently elevated levels of cardiac troponin (cTn) after a previous episode of clinically presumed myocarditis. Extensive investigation concluded that the presence of heterophile antibodies was causing false positive cTn elevation. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.) Elsevier 2020-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8311687/ /pubmed/34317263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.01.011 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://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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Graça Santos, Luís
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Montenegro Sá, Fernando
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Pernencar, Sidarth
Castro, Ricardo
Morais, João
Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation: An Unusual Differential Diagnosis of Myocardial Disease
title Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation: An Unusual Differential Diagnosis of Myocardial Disease
title_full Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation: An Unusual Differential Diagnosis of Myocardial Disease
title_fullStr Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation: An Unusual Differential Diagnosis of Myocardial Disease
title_full_unstemmed Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation: An Unusual Differential Diagnosis of Myocardial Disease
title_short Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation: An Unusual Differential Diagnosis of Myocardial Disease
title_sort circulating heterophile antibodies causing cardiac troponin elevation: an unusual differential diagnosis of myocardial disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.01.011
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