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False Positive Troponin I Rendering Two Admissions for “Recurrent Acute Myopericarditis”

2018; Bentham Science Publishers; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2174/1874192401812010055

1874-1924

Rita Marinheiro, Pedro Amador, Leonor Parreira, Quitéria Rato, Rui Caria,

Viral Infections and Immunology Research

Since there are many manufacturers of cardiac troponin I assays, the true incidence of a false positive result is unknown. The authors report a case of an 18-year-old patient with previous history of recurrent myopericarditis and admitted to hospital twice again with a suspicious of myopericarditis.Troponin I was found to be a false positive and alkaline phosphatase interference was proved to have been the responsible for this.