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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 36, 765-771, Copyright © 1990 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Concentrations of free thyroxin and albumin in serum in severe nonthyroidal illness: assay artefacts and physiological influences

JE Midgley, CP Sheehan, ND Christofides, JE Fry, D Browning and R Mardell
North Lakes Clinical Consultants, Keswick, Cumbria, U.K.

Free thyroxin (FT4) estimates by two immunoassays were compared with the concentrations of albumin in serum of apparently euthyroid subjects who either were (n = 99) or were not (n = 327) suffering from severe nonthyroidal illness (sNTI). In neither group was FT4 significantly correlated with albumin (P greater than 0.05), according to a "labeled antibody" radioassay (Amerlex-MAB). On amalgamating both groups, correlation with albumin was positive and significant (P less than 0.001). In the group with sNTI, both FT4 and albumin concentrations were decreased (mean FT4 to 77% and mean albumin to 61% of the respective reference means). For an analog radioimmunoassay (Amerlex- M), FT4 in all groups was significantly (P less than 0.001) correlated with albumin. Correlation coefficients were greater than with Amerlex- MAB for both sNTI and euthyroid groups, as well as for the joint panel. Mean FT4 in sNTI was only 44% of the reference mean. Lower radio-tracer "analog" values in sNTI are exaggerated by additional technical artefacts resulting from tracer binding to albumin.


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