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  • Title: Performance of the enhanced Abbott AxSYM cardiac troponin I reagent in patients with heterophilic antibodies.
    Author: Yeo KT, Storm CA, Li Y, Jayne JE, Brough T, Quinn-Hall KS, Fitzmaurice TF.
    Journal: Clin Chim Acta; 2000 Feb 25; 292(1-2):13-23. PubMed ID: 10686273.
    Abstract:
    The presence of heterophilic antibodies in the serum of a small subpopulation of individuals continues to cause false results for modern-day immunoassays. In order to determine the frequency of heterophilic antibody (HA)-related false positives within our population of positive cardiac troponin I (cTnI) patients, we assayed 200 samples using the original in-house cTnI assay (Abbott AxSYM) and the Bayer ACS:180 cTnI, which we had previously observed to be more effective at blocking HA interference. Four samples were identified as false positives based on discordant results between the two assays, as well as the correction of the false positives by treatment of the samples with heterophilic antibody blocking reagent (HBR). An 'enhanced' version of the AxSYM cTnI reagent was designed to greatly reduce or eliminate HA interference, and has now replaced the original reagents. The present study shows that the enhanced reagent significantly reduced or eliminated much of the HA interference. Comparative studies between the enhanced cTnI reagent and the original Abbott AxSYM cTnI reagent showed excellent correlation and equivalent diagnostic concordance, when HA samples were excluded from the analysis.
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