False-positive D-dimer result in a latex-enhanced immunoassay caused by interfering human anti-mouse antibodies

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2014, Pages e253-e255

  Robier, Christoph ^a,b   Edler, Eva ^c   Klescher, Daniela ^a   Neubauer, Manfred ^a  

^a Hospital of the Brothers of St John   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

D dimer; heterophilic antibodies; human anti mouse antibodies; interference

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTITHROMBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; D DIMER; HUMAN ANTIMOUSE ANTIBODY; HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIBODY; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D; LATEX;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG; MOUSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; LATEX; LUNG; MALE; MICE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84908084335     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2014-0496     Document Type: Letter

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