Analytically false or true positive elevations of high sensitivity cardiac troponin: A systematic approach

Heart

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 508-514

  Vafaie, Mehrshad ^a   Biener, Moritz ^a   Mueller, Matthias ^a   Schnabel, Philipp A ^a   André, Florian ^a   Steen, Henning ^a   Zorn, Markus ^a   Schueler, Melanie ^a   Blankenberg, Stefan ^b   Katus, Hugo A ^a   Giannitsis, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATINE KINASE; HLA ANTIGEN; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG FIBROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDITIS; PERIMYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; UPREGULATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANALYTICAL INTERFERENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FALSE POSITIVE TROPONIN; HIGH SENSITIVITY TROPONIN T; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; TROPONIN;

EID: 84896739990     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303202     Document Type: Article

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