Anomalous serum thyroxin measurements with the abbott TDx procedure

S. Levine; R. Noth; A. Loo; I. J. Chopra; G. G. Klee

Anomalous serum thyroxin measurements with the abbott TDx procedure

S. Levine, R. Noth, A. Loo, I. J. Chopra, G. G. Klee

Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

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Abstract

We describe a patient whose serum gave consistently low results for thyroxin as measured with the Abbott TDx but normal results by radioimmunoassay. Further clinical and laboratory studies did not support the low TDx results. Anti-thyroxin antibodies did not explain the discordant results, and we found no evidence of heterophilic antibodies in the patient's serum. We were unable to identify the cause of the problem.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1838-1840
Number of pages	3
Journal	Clinical chemistry
Volume	36
Issue number	10
State	Published - 1990

Keywords

Analytical error
Fluorescence polarization immunoassay
Radioimmunoassay compared

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General Medicine

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