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A Case of Floating Gel

Author(s) -

Erin Kaleta,

Allan S. Jaffe,

N Baumann,

Darci R Block

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

clinical chemistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705

H-Index - 218

eISSN - 1530-8561

pISSN - 0009-9147

DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2012.188862

Subject(s) - vacutainer , troponin i , creatine kinase , medicine , roche diagnostics , pipette , centrifugation , chromatography , chemistry , myocardial infarction

Two unrelated patients underwent coronary angiography and a percutaneous intervention. At the end of the procedures, blood was collected (Vacutainer® SST™; BD) for troponin, creatine kinase (CK), and CK-MB isoenzyme analysis. After centrifugation with the Roche Modular Pre-Analytics system (Roche Diagnostics), pipetting error alerts were triggered on the aliquoting module of the Pre-Analytics system. Investigation revealed that the separator gel had migrated above the serum (Fig. 1A), preventing separation of the serum from the …

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