Fibrin clot interference in a human chorionic gonadotrophin assay causing a false down syndrome screening result

HIGHLIGHTS

  • who: Submitted July et al. from the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Training and Research Hospital, Usak University, Usak, Turkey have published the paper: Fibrin clot interference in a human chorionic gonadotrophin assay causing a false Down syndrome screening result, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • how: Interventions and further investigations When the initial hCG result was obtained as 2566 U/L it was noted that it was very low compared to the usual results and the test was repeated with the same sample.

SUMMARY

    With a false positive percentage of 5% for DS . . .

     

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