Clinical prevalence and ramifications of false-positive cardiac troponin I elevations from the Abbott AxSYM analyzer

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1125-1127

  McClennen, Seth ^a   Halamka, John D ^a   Horowitz, Gary L ^a   Kannam, Joseph P ^a   Ho, Kalon K L ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE ISOENZYME; CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0037407368     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(03)00164-4     Document Type: Article

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