On (b)(6) 2017, abbott point of care was contacted by a customer regarding i-stat crea cartridges that yielded a suspected discrepant results on a (b)(6) female patient with parkinson's disease.Physician questioned the results as one month ago the patient was normal, so patient was sent to the hospital where the result was normal.The actual result was not available.There was no additional patient information at the time of this report.The customer states that return product is available for investigation.The customer states that the patient did have a prescription filled for hydroxyurea on (b)(6) 2017.However, it is unknown if the patient was on hydroxyurea that the time of the event.The patient was treated on based on hospital results date: (b)(6) 2017, method: i-stat, test time: unk, sample: a, result: 4.0; (b)(6) 2017, i-stat, unk, unk, 3.8.Per i-stat system manual art: 714183-00y.Hydroxyurea is a substance that is known to interfere with the i-stat creatinine assay resulting in increased i-stat creatinine results.There are no injuries associated with this event.At this time there is no reason to suspect a malfunction exits.The investigation is underway.
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