Graça Santos Luís, Ribeiro Carvalho Rita, Montenegro Sá Fernando, Soares Francisco, Pernencar Sidarth, Castro Ricardo, Morais João
Department of Cardiology, Leiria Hospital Centre, Leiria, Portugal.
Department of Clinical Pathology, Leiria Hospital Centre, Leiria, Portugal.
JACC Case Rep. 2020 Mar 18;2(3):456-460. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.01.011. eCollection 2020 Mar.
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. ().
我们报告了一例女性患者的病例,该患者在先前一次临床诊断为心肌炎的发作后,心肌肌钙蛋白(cTn)水平持续升高。广泛调查得出结论,嗜异性抗体的存在导致了cTn假阳性升高。()