Pilot study on harmonization of cardiac troponin I immunoassays using patients and quality control plasma samples. On behalf of the Italian Section of the European Ligand Assay Society (ELAS) and of the Study Group on Cardiovascular Biomarkers of the Società Italiana di Biochimica Clinica (SIBioC)

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 456, Issue , 2016, Pages 42-48

  Clerico, Aldo ^a,b   Ripoli, Andrea ^a   Masotti, Silvia ^b   Prontera, Concetta ^a   Storti, Simona ^a   Fortunato, Antonio ^c   Buzzi, Paola ^d   Casagranda, Ivo ^d   Franzini, Maria ^e   Ndreu, Rudina ^f   Zucchelli, Gian Carlo ^f   Zaninotto, Martina ^g   Plebani, Mario ^g  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Santi Antonio e Biagio and Cesare Arrigo Hospital   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary artery syndrome; cTnI; Harmonization; Immunoassay; Myocardial infarction; Quality control

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOASSAY ANALYZER; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEART INFARCTION; ITALY; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; ITALY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; TROPONIN I;

EID: 84959356883     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2016.02.017     Document Type: Article

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