ea0034p49 | Clinical biochemistry | SFEBES2014
Braha Kate
, Phillips Suzannah
, Dutton John
, Milan Anna
Measurement of cortisol is used in the differential diagnosis of Addisons disease (deficiency), Cushings disease (excess), hypopituitarism, adrenal hyperplasia and carcinoma. Cortisol is routinely measured by immunoassay, which has wide inter-assay variability with manufacturer dependent bias. Despite this, universal cut-offs are used as criteria for interpretation of dynamic function tests of the pituitary adrenal axis.Using a fully validate...