Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: 2nd generation ‘Intact’ PTH assays currently available, measure 1–84 PTH and additional fragments. Recently a third generation kit developed which detects only active.1–84 PTH molecule, based on an immuno-radiometric sandwich assay.Design: Evaluation took place in an HMO central lab. 240 plasma samples collected. One hundred and sixty-one randomly out patients and 78 hospitalized nephrologic patien...