Comparison between intact and bioactive parathyroid hormone assays in patients with severe heart failure.

Autor: Gruson D; Pôle de Recherche en Endocrinologie, Diabète et Nutrition, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc and Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. damien.gruson@uclouvain.be, Lepoutre T, Ahn SA, Ketelslegers JM, Rousseau MF
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Clinical biochemistry [Clin Biochem] 2013 Mar; Vol. 46 (4-5), pp. 391-4. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Dec 12.
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2012.12.002
Abstrakt: Objectives: Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is a major systemic calcium-regulating hormone. Recent evidence has suggested that measurement of PTH might provide complementary information for the diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with heart failure (HF). The aim of our study was to compare intact and bioactive PTH assays in patients with severe heart failure.
Design and Methods: The following measurements were carried out in blood samples from 73 patients with severe heart failure: bioactive PTH (1-84) assay, intact PTH assay, non-PTH (1-84), 25-hydroxyvitamin D, B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), N-terminal proBNP (Nt-proBNP), Galectin-3 and high sensitive troponin T (hsTnT).
Results: The correlation between intact and bioactive PTH assays was very high in HF patients. However, the bioactive PTH concentrations were lower than those measured with the intact assay. Intact and bioactive PTH as well as non-PTH (1-84) was significantly and positively correlated to BNP, Nt-proBNP, and galectin-3 but not to hsTnT. The strongest relationships with these cardiac biomarkers and with cardiovascular death were observed with the bioactive PTH assay.
Conclusions: The PTH concentrations obtained with intact and bioactive assays are not comparable in patients with severe HF. The specificity of PTH assays might therefore impact on the potential diagnosis and prognosis values of PTH testing in patients with heart failure.
(Copyright © 2012 The Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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