Open AccessAdhesive Labels Cause High Thyroxine Results
Author(s) -
Christian Bieglmayer,
Georg Mustafa
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1093/clinchem/43.3.548
Subject(s) - adhesive , medicine , chemistry , organic chemistry , layer (electronics)
Recently, we identified serum samples from seven patients with no clinical signs of thyroidal illness with borderline to normal thyrotropin (TSH) (0.13–2.14 mU/L; TSH-Ultra, Auto-DELFIA; Wallac, Turku, Finland) and normal free thyroxine (FT4) (12–21 pmol/L; FT4-Amerlex MAB; Johnson and Johnson, Amersham, UK) but implausibly high T4 [339–387 nmol/L; ES700; Boehringer Mannheim (BM), Mannheim, Germany]. The results were confirmed by reanalyses with different lots …
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