Assessment of analytical bias in ferritin assays and their impact on functional reference limits

KW Choy, G Sezgin, N Wijeratne, J Calleja, R Liwayan, Geetha Rathnayake, R McFarlane, A McNeil, J C.G. Doery, Z Lu, Corey Markus, TP Loh

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Abstract

Introduction
Serum ferritin is currently the recommended laboratory test to investigate iron deficiency. There have been efforts to standardise serum ferritin assays with implementation of traceability to the World Health Organization reference standard. We evaluate the analytical bias among five widely used commercial ferritin among says in Australia. The relationship between serum ferritin and erythrocyte parameters was recently explored to derive functional reference limits.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S21
Number of pages1
JournalClinical Biochemist Reviews
Volume42
Issue numberSuppl 1
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021
EventAustralasian Association of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine’s Annual Scientific Conference 2021 - Virtual
Duration: 28 Sept 202130 Sept 2021

Keywords

  • analytical bias
  • ferritin assays
  • functional reference limit
  • serum ferritin
  • iron deficiency

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