A false-positive troponin assay leading to the misdiagnosis of myopericarditis

CMAJ. 2022 Mar 28;194(12):E456-E459. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.211842.

Authors

Marianne Laguë¹, Pierre Yves Turgeon¹, Sébastien Thériault¹, Christian Steinberg¹

Affiliation

¹ Faculty of Medicine (Laguë), Université Laval; Departments of Cardiology (Turgeon, Steinberg), and of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry and Pathology (Thériault), Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et Pneumologie de Québec, Québec, Que.

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MeSH terms

Diagnostic Errors
Humans
Myocarditis* / diagnosis
Troponin*

Substances

Troponin