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Polyclonal pancreatic elastase assay is superior to monoclonal assay for diagnosis of acute pancreatitis

Volker Keima, Niels Teich, Andrea Reich, Fritz Fiedler1 and Joachim Mössner

1 Institut für Anästhesie, Klinikum Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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We compared the clinical values for diagnosis of acute pancreatitis of two commercial assays for pancreatic elastase: an ELISA procedure with monoclonal antibodies and a RIA technique with polyclonal antibodies. In 14 patients with acute pancreatitis, serum concentrations of elastase determined by ELISA (ELISA-elastase) decreased much faster (half-life 0.4 days) than those of elastase determined by RIA (RIA-elastase) (2.2 days), amylase (0.8 days), or lipase (0.9 days). Serum samples from 253 additional patients with abdominal pain (32 of these with acute pancreatitis) were analyzed. In sera collected up to 48 h after the onset of disease, the ROC curves showed a slightly higher diagnostic value of RIA-elastase. In samples taken later, at a sensitivity of 90% the specificity of RIA-elastase was 95% (ELISA-elastase 40%). We conclude that serum ELISA-elastase is of much lower clinical value than RIA-elastase for diagnosis of acute pancreatitis.




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