Falsely elevated cardiac troponin I attributed to inappropriate dilution material

Affiliations

• ¹ Graduate Institute of Medicine,College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Electronic address: tzekiong@totalbb.net.tw.
• ² Graduate Institute of Medicine,College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• ³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• ⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Hsio-Kang Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• ⁵ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Virgen de la Salud (Toledo), Spain.