Journal article
Reporting of post-polyethylene glycol prolactin: precipitation by polyethylene glycol 6000 or polyethylene glycol 8000 will change reference intervals for monomeric prolactin
Abstract
BACKGROUND: When screening for macroprolactin, many laboratories use precipitation by polyethylene glycol (PEG) with molecular weight 6000 (PEG6000) or 8000 (PEG8000), and report the percentage prolactin recovery. It has been proposed that reporting of percentage prolactin recovery should be replaced by absolute post-PEG prolactin; however, the post-PEG prolactin reference interval has been established using PEG6000 only. We sought to determine …
Authors
Veljkovic K; Servedio D; Don-Wauchope AC
Journal
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry International Journal of Laboratory Medicine, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 402–404
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
7 2012
DOI
10.1258/acb.2011.011238
ISSN
0004-5632