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Confirmation of congenital adrenal hyperplasia by adrenal steroid profiling of filter paper dried blood samples using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

  • Claudia Rossi EMAIL logo , Lisa Calton , Heather A. Brown , Scott Gillingwater , A. Michael Wallace , Francesca Petrucci , Domenico Ciavardelli , Andrea Urbani , Paolo Sacchetta und Michael Morris
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 3. Februar 2011
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Abstract

Background: The specificity of screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia by direct measurement of 17-hydroxyprogesterone in filter paper dried blood spot samples by immunoassay is low and has a high false-positive rate. In order to reduce the false-positive rate of this test, we developed a rapid, robust, specific confirmatory procedure in which cortisol, 4-androstene-3,17-dione and 17-hydroxyprogesterone were measured simultaneously by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

Methods: After extraction, samples were analysed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry and 17-hydroxyprogesterone was quantified accurately. Other steroids were determined using stable deuterated internal standards. In total, 25 patient blood spot samples and 92 control samples were analysed.

Results: The assay was linear for 17-hydroxyprogesterone, with a coefficient of determination >0.997 and imprecision ≤6.5%. An upper limit of normal for 17-hydroxyprogester-one of 4.45 nmol/L was established by analysing a cohort of samples from unaffected newborns. In addition, a cut-off of 3.5 for the peak areas ratio (17-hydroxyprogesterone+4-androstene-3,17-dione)/cortisol, allows confirmation of the affected steroidogenic enzyme.

Conclusions: A high throughput method for the detection of steroids related to congenital adrenal hyperplasia has been developed, allowing the false-positive rate associated with screening for 17-hydroxyprogesterone by immunoassay to be determined.


Corresponding author: Claudia Rossi, Analytical Biochemistry and Proteomics Unit, Centre of Study on Aging (Ce.S.I.), “G. d’Annunzio” University Foundation, Via Colle dell’Ara, 66100 Chieti Scalo, Italy

Received: 2010-8-5
Accepted: 2010-10-4
Published Online: 2011-02-03
Published in Print: 2011-04-01

©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York

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