Drug-interference in clinical chemistry analyses: pseudohypertriglyceridaemia

Abstract

Knowledge about the drug kinetics and their possible interactions with analytical methods is required to correctly validate results of a patient. Many times these discussions about laboratory related factors affecting the patient values are confined to clinical biochemistry forums. However, there is a need for increasing awareness of clinicians regarding this issue. With this in mind, we present three cases of hypertriglyceridaemia due to drug interference.