Evaluation of the analytical performance of the advanced method for cardiac troponin I for the AxSYM platform: Comparison with the old method and the Access system

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1022-1029

  Storti, Simona ^a   Prontera, Concetta ^a   Parri, Maria Serena ^a   Iervasi, Annalisa ^a   Vittorini, Simona ^a   Emdin, Michele ^a   Zucchelli, Gian Carlo ^a   Longombardo, Giovanni ^a   Migliorini, Paola ^a   Clerico, Aldo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Acute myocardial infarction; Cardiac troponin I (cTnI); Immunoassay; Method comparison; Troponin assay

Indexed keywords

RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TROPONIN I;

EID: 33746763722     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14346621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2006.175     Document Type: Article

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