Clinical evaluation of the CARDIAC STATus®, a rapid immuno-chromatographic assay for simultaneous detection of elevated concentrations of CK-MB and myoglobin in whole blood

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 469-473

  Schouten, Yvonne ^a   De Winter, Robbert J ^a,b   Gorgels, Jozef P M C ^a   Koster, Rudolph W ^a   Adams, Rob ^a   Sanders, Gerard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac enzymes; Myocardial infarction; Point of care testing

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; MYOGLOBIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

CREATINE KINASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; ISOENZYMES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOGLOBIN; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC;

EID: 0031707037     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1998.079     Document Type: Article

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