CASE REPORT
False Positive Troponin I Rendering Two Admissions for “Recurrent Acute Myopericarditis”
Rita Marinheiro*, Pedro Amador, Leonor Parreira, Quitéria Rato, Rui Caria
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 12
First Page: 55
Last Page: 58
Publisher ID: TOCMJ-12-55
DOI: 10.2174/1874192401812010055
Article History:
Received Date: 16/2/2018Revision Received Date: 30/3/2018
Acceptance Date: 29/5/2018
Electronic publication date: 29/6/2018
Collection year: 2018
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Abstract
Introduction:
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.
Conclusion:
Troponin I was found to be a false positive and alkaline phosphatase interference was proved to have been the responsible for this.