False Negative Urine Pregnancy Test: Hook Effect Revealed

The urine pregnancy kit tests are commonly used in women of childbearing age to detect pregnancy. However, these tests may fail to detect pregnancy, rarely leading to inadvertent lab and radiation exposure. The hook-effect is a rare but important phenomenon, rendering the kit tests false negative du...

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Autores principales: Priyadarshini, Shista, Manas, FNU, Prabhu, Sheela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8971111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35371840
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22779
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description The urine pregnancy kit tests are commonly used in women of childbearing age to detect pregnancy. However, these tests may fail to detect pregnancy, rarely leading to inadvertent lab and radiation exposure. The hook-effect is a rare but important phenomenon, rendering the kit tests false negative due to an improper antigen-antibody ratio.
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spelling pubmed-89711112022-04-01 False Negative Urine Pregnancy Test: Hook Effect Revealed Priyadarshini, Shista Manas, FNU Prabhu, Sheela Cureus Emergency Medicine The urine pregnancy kit tests are commonly used in women of childbearing age to detect pregnancy. However, these tests may fail to detect pregnancy, rarely leading to inadvertent lab and radiation exposure. The hook-effect is a rare but important phenomenon, rendering the kit tests false negative due to an improper antigen-antibody ratio. Cureus 2022-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8971111/ /pubmed/35371840 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22779 Text en Copyright © 2022, Priyadarshini et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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False Negative Urine Pregnancy Test: Hook Effect Revealed
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title_fullStr False Negative Urine Pregnancy Test: Hook Effect Revealed
title_full_unstemmed False Negative Urine Pregnancy Test: Hook Effect Revealed
title_short False Negative Urine Pregnancy Test: Hook Effect Revealed
title_sort false negative urine pregnancy test: hook effect revealed
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8971111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35371840
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