Abstract
A preparative extraction step using disposable C18 low-pressure chromatography columns greatly improved the specificity of a commercially prepared digoxin radioimmunoassay (RIA). Elution solvents were isopropanol/water (15/85 by vol), which extracted most immunoreactive digitalis-like factors and metabolites, and methanol, which extracted digoxin for RIA. Many different digoxin RIA kits could be used. The coefficients of variation for replicates and duplicates were 4.6% and 5.2%. Analytical recoveries of digoxin standards in serum of 1.0, 0.5, and 0.1 microgram/L were 96%, 95%, and 88%, respectively. Serum digoxin was assayed by this method in 200 patients, 47 of whom were studied by HPLC-RIA. Values correlated better with "true digoxin" by HPLC-RIA (r = 0.93) than did values found by direct assay (r = 0.63). The mean for the isopropanol fraction as a percentage of the mean direct RIA value was higher for the 21 dialysis-dependent patients than was that found for the 179 nondialysis patients (P less than 0.004). The method is suggested as being most useful when metabolites or digitalis-like factors are known to be often high and values for digoxin are disproportionate to the dose.
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