Measurement of skeletal specific alkaline phosphatase in disorders of calcium metabolism in childhood
Measurement of skeletal specific alkaline phosphatase in disorders of calcium metabolism in childhood
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DOI:
10.1007/s001120050054
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发表时间:
1996-09-01
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0.4
通讯作者:
Kruse, K
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作者:
Reiss, I;Inderrieden, D;Kruse, K
Background: Human alkaline phosphatases catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphate esters at an alkaline pH. Skeletal and liver alkaline phophatase isoenzymes predominate in serum. During childhood 60-90 % of total phosphatase are of skeletal origin. The radioimmunometric determination of skeletal alkaline phosphatase in the adult is helpful in the diagnosis of metabolic bone disease. We therefore examined the diagnostic value of skeletal phosphatase determination in childhood by using an immunoradiometric assay.Material: We examined the sera of 155 healthy children and adults aged 0-27 years in addition to 82 sera of patients with one of the following diseases: vitamin-D deficient rickets, X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets (phosphate diabetes), isolated transient hyperphosphatasia, congenital hypophosphatasia, constitutional delay of growth and puberty, pubertas praecox, osteopenia of the premature infant, hepatitis A.Method: The concentration of skeletal phosphatase was determined by a commercially available immunoradiometric assay (Tandem(R)-R Ostase(TM). Simultaneously, total alkaline phophatase levels were de termined by photometry and bone-specific alkaline phosphatase was determined by wheat germ agglutinine precipitation. Data were expressed as standard deviation of the mean.Results: In the normal control group alkaline phosphatase values were found to be age dependent with elevated levels of skeletal alkaline phosphatase before the age of 14 years decreasing to lower adult values after puberty. In children with vitamin D - deficient rickets, phosphate diabetes, as well as transient hyperphosphatasia and osteopenia of prematurity, skeletal phosphatase values were markedly increased up to 25 standard deviations of the mean. In two patients with elevated total alkaline phosphatase after a hepatitis A infection, wheat-germ alkaline phosphatase was also elevated while skeletal phosphatase was within the normal range. In children with growth retardation significantly levier values were found in comparision to children with growth accelaration. Correlation of skeletal alkaline phosphatase with total alkaline phosphatase and skeletal alkaline phosphatase assayed by wheat germ agglutinine precipitation was highly significant (p < 0.01).Conclusion: Due to the finding of a highly significant correlation between skeletal alkaline phosphatase and total alkaline phosphatase both in healthy children and in children with various disorders of bone metabolism, measurement of total alkaline phosphatase is sufficient in most cases to determine bone turnover. In the differential diagnosis of unexplained total alkaline phosphatase elevation, determination of skeletal alkaline phosphatase may be helpful.