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When is elevated testosterone not testosterone? When it is an immunoassay interfering antibody
Devon Ramaeker1, John Brannian, Kristi Egland
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Magee-Women's Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Fertility and Sterility
|October 24, 2007
Abstract:
A discrepancy between clinical findings and a markedly elevated testosterone (T) level stimulated search to explain this inconsistency. The cause of the falsely elevated T level was determined to be heterophile antibodies from a polyclonal gammopathy in a subject with acute myelogenous leukemia.
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