Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To extend knowledge about the clinical performances of a new chemiluminescent immunoassay (CLIA) for aldosterone set up in available analysers.Design and patient: We compared the results of a RIA assay to those of a CLIA assay in 198 serum and 80 urine samples from patients in endocrine and hypertension departments. Furthermore, for serum samples the concordance of results for postural tests was analysed.Results: RIA and...