Analytical performance evaluation of ADVIA Chemistry Carbamazepine_2 assay: minimal cross-reactivity with carbamazepine 10, 11-epoxide and none with hydroxyzine or cetirizine.

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis
Amitava DasguptaMyrtle J Johnson

Abstract

Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant requiring routine therapeutic drug monitoring. Recently, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostic Division released a new carbamazepine assay: ADVIA Chemistry Carbamazepine_2 (Carbamazepine_2) for application on ADVIA analyzers. We evaluated the analytical performance of this assay as well as its potential cross-reactivities with carbamazepine 10, 11-epoxide, hydroxyzine, and cetirizine. The within-run and between-run precisions of the Carbamzepine-2 assay were <6% and limit of detection was 0.5 microg/ml using ADVIA 1800 analyzer. The assay was linear up to a carbamazepine concentration of 20.0 microg/ml. The new method compared well with a widely used carbamazepine EMIT 2000 assay on the Hitachi 917 analyzer. Using 75 patients' specimens (where carbamazepine concentrations varied from 0.5 to 21.7 microg/ml) and carbamazepine EMIT 2000 as the reference method (x-axis), we observed the following regression equation: y=1.04 x+0.32 (r=0.99). The new carbazepine_2 method was not affected by a hemoglobin concentration of 1,000 mg/dl, conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin concentration of 60 mg/dl, and triglyceride concentration of 1,000 mg/dl. In addition, this assay showed no cross-reactivity with hydroxyzin...Continue Reading

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