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.
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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | S21 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Journal | Clinical Biochemist Reviews |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | Suppl 1 |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2021 |
Event | Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine’s Annual Scientific Conference 2021 - Virtual Duration: 28 Sept 2021 → 30 Sept 2021 |
Keywords
- analytical bias
- ferritin assays
- functional reference limit
- serum ferritin
- iron deficiency