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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...
Autores principales: | Graça Santos, Luís, Ribeiro Carvalho, Rita, Montenegro Sá, Fernando, Soares, Francisco, Pernencar, Sidarth, Castro, Ricardo, Morais, João |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2020
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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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