Cardiac Troponin I carryover by very high patient samples still causes false-positive results on the Beckman Coulter AccuTnI + 3

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 177-179

  Wilgen, Urs ^a,b   Pretorius, Carel J ^a,b   Gould, Michael J ^c   Ungerer, Jacobus P J ^a  

^a The Royal Brisbane Women's and Children's Hospital   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

analytical systems; immunoassay; Troponin

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOASSAY ANALYZER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ARTIFACT; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CARDIAC MUSCLE; DEVICES; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

ARTIFACTS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; REFERENCE STANDARDS; TROPONIN I;

EID: 84950321157     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 17581001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004563215606739     Document Type: Article

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