Rare IgM interference with Roche/Hitachi Modular glucose and γ-glutamyltransferase methods in heparin samples

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2202-2204

  Dimeski, Goce ^a   Carter, Andrew ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE OXIDASE; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARAPROTEIN; REAGENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEASUREMENT; PHOTOMETRY; PUBLICATION; TECHNOLOGY;

ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARAPROTEINS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 27444440190     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.053561     Document Type: Article

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