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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 28, 453-456, Copyright © 1982 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Direct radioimmunoassays for "aldosterone" and "18- hydroxycorticosterone" in unprocessed urine, and their use in screening to distinguish primary aldosteronism from hypertension

P Vecsei, TJ Benraad, J Hofman, S Abdelhamid, D Haack and K Lichtwald

For distinguishing primary aldosteronism from essential hypertension, we use simple direct radioimmunoassays for "aldosterone" (aldosterone and other materials that react with the antibody to aldosterone) and "18-hydroxycorticosterone" (similarly) in unprocessed urine. Patients with primary aldosteronism have high values for "aldosterone." This diagnosis can be validated by assays of further urine samples from the same person and by additional direct assays for "18- hydroxycorticosterone." In none of 65 urine samples from 26 patients with primary aldosteronism were both "aldosterone" and "18- hydroxycorticosterone" values within their reference intervals. However, a few "aldosterone" and "18-hydroxycorticosterone" values for patients with essential hypertension and normal aldosterone excretion were also (moderately) increased. Thus, when high values are found, true aldosterone values must be estimated by extraction and chromatography, to eliminate false positives. The "aldosterone" and "18- hydroxycorticosterone" values by our procedure are much higher than the corresponding values for urinary free aldosterone and 18- hydroxycorticosterone. Although not identified, the immunoactive materials are probably metabolites of aldosterone and 18- hydroxycorticosterone.




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