Measurement of total serum testosterone in adult men:: Comparison of current laboratory methods versus liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
Measurement of total serum testosterone in adult men:: Comparison of current laboratory methods versus liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
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DOI:
10.1210/jc.2003-031287
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发表时间:
2004-02-01
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5.8
通讯作者:
Swerdloff, RS
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作者:
Wang, C;Catlin, DH;Swerdloff, RS
The diagnosis of male hypogonadism requires the demonstration of a low serum testosterone (T) level. We examined serum T levels in pedigreed samples taken from 62 eugonadal and 60 hypogonadal males by four commonly used automated immunoassay instruments (Roche Elecsys, Bayer Centaur, Ortho Vitros ECi and DPC Immulite 2000) and two manual immunoassay methods (DPC-RIA, a coated tube commercial kit, and HUMC-RIA, a research laboratory assay) and compared results with measurements performed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MSMS). Deming's regression analyses comparing each of the test results with LC-MSMS showed slopes that were between 0.881 and 1.217. The interclass correlation coefficients were between 0.92 and 0.97 for all methods. Compared with the serum T concentrations measured by LC-MSMS, the DPC Immulite results were biased toward lower values (mean difference, -90+/-9 ng/dl) whereas the Bayer Centaur data were biased toward higher values (mean difference, +99+/-11 ng/dl) over a wide range of serum T levels. At low serum T concentrations (