Establish pre-clinical diagnostic efficacy for parathyroid hormone as a point-of-surgery-testing-device (POST)

Abstract

Measuring the Parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels assists in the investigation and management of patients with parathyroid disorders. Rapid PTH monitoring is a valid tool for accurate assessment intraoperatively. Rapid Electro-Analytical Device (READ) is a point-of-care device that uses impedance change between target and capture probe to assess the PTH concentration in undiluted patient plasma samples. The aim of this work focuses on evaluating the analytical performance of READ platform to Roche analyzer as a prospective clinical validation method. The coefficient of variation (CV) for intra-assay imprecision was < 5% and inter-assay imprecision CV was < 10% for high (942 pg/mL) and low (38.2 pg/mL) PTH concentration. Functional sensitivity defined at 15% CV was 1.9 pg/mL. Results obtained from READ platform correlated well (r = 0.99) with commercially available clinical laboratory method (Roche Diagnostics) to measure PTH concentrations with a turn-around time of less than 15 min. Furthermore, the mean bias of 7.6 pg/mL determined by Bland–Altman analysis, showed good agreement between the two methods. We envision such a sensing system would allow medical practitioners to facilitate targeted interventions, thereby, offering an immediate prognostic approach as the cornerstone to delivering successful treatment for patients suffering from primary hyperparathyroidism.

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