False Positive Troponin I Rendering Two Admissions for “Recurrent Acute Myopericarditis”
The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal
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29 June 2018 •
CASE REPORT
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DOI: 10.2174/1874192401812010055
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.
Keywords: Troponin I, Assay, False positive, Myopericarditis, Alkaline phosphatase, Echocardiography.
