Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation

Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation

We present the case of a female patient who developed persistently elevated levels of cardiac troponin (cTn) after a previous episode of clinically presumed myocarditis. Extensive investigation concluded that the presence of heterophile antibodies was causing false positive cTn elevation. (Level of...

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Main Authors: Luís Graça Santos, MD, Rita Ribeiro Carvalho, MD, Fernando Montenegro Sá, MD, Francisco Soares, MD, Sidarth Pernencar, MD, Ricardo Castro, MD, João Morais, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-03-01
Series:JACC: Case Reports
Subjects:
cardiac magnetic resonance
echocardiography
myocardial infarction
speckle tracking
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666084920300334

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