Circulating Heterophile Antibodies Causing Cardiac Troponin Elevation: An Unusual Differential Diagnosis of Myocardial Disease

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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Publicado no:JACC Case Rep
Main Authors: Graça Santos, Luís, Ribeiro Carvalho, Rita, Montenegro Sá, Fernando, Soares, Francisco, Pernencar, Sidarth, Castro, Ricardo, Morais, João
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311687/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317263
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.01.011
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