Sunday August 16, 2009
Causes of False-Positive Troponin Results (Lab interference / errors)
- Heterophile antibodies
- Human anti-mouse antibodies
- Autoantibodies
- Fibrin clots
- Rheumatoid factor
- Microparticles in specimen
- Interference by endogenous components in blood (bilirubin, hemoglobin, lipemia)
- High concentration of alkaline phosphatase
- Immunocomplex formation
- Analyzer malfunction
