Comparison of the Abbott IMx and a high-performance liquid chromatography method for measuring total plasma homocysteine.
Clin Chem Lab Med
; 38(4): 327-9, 2000 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-10928653
ABSTRACT
The determination of the total concentration of plasma homocysteine is of interest in a variety of clinical circumstances, especially, in the evaluation of the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, most of the methods available to date, many of them chromatographic, are not well suited for the majority of clinical laboratories. Several automated methods are now or will be, shortly, commercially available. We have compared one of them, the fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) adapted to the IMx analyzer (Abbott Laboratories), with the high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method with fluorescent detection currently used in our laboratory. The results show that the FPIA-IMx method is less imprecise and slightly more sensitive than the HPLC. The comparison of 67 clinical plasma specimens indicated that there is a proportional error disagreement between FPIA-IMx and HPLC (FPIA=1.19 HPLC + 0.92; confidence region for slope and y-intercept were, respectively, from 1.06 to 1.31 and from -0.06 to 2.32). The nature of this error is not explained by the experiments performed to study the inaccuracy of both methods, which included the investigation of dilution parallelism, analytical recovery and cross-reactivity. The different results of homocysteine concentration obtained with FPIA-IMx and HPLC must be taken into account when a change of methodology is under consideration.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Fluorescence Polarization Immunoassay
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Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
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Homocysteine
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Clin Chem Lab Med
Year:
2000
Document type:
Article