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  • Title: Hormonal diagnosis of 21-hydroxylase deficiency in plasma and urine of neonates using benchtop gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
    Author: Wudy SA, Hartmann M, Homoki J.
    Journal: J Endocrinol; 2000 Jun; 165(3):679-83. PubMed ID: 10828852.
    Abstract:
    We aimed at measuring the first plasma concentrations of 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17OH-P) determined by benchtop isotope dilution/gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (ID/GC-MS) in term neonates with or without 21-hydroxylase deficiency. Plasma samples from normal cord blood specimens (n=30), unaffected neonates (n=38) and neonatal patients with classical 21-hydroxylase deficiency (eight salt-wasters, three simple virilizers) were analyzed. Steroid profiling of random urinary specimens by GC-MS served as a confirmatory test for 21-hydroxylase deficiency. 17OH-P (nmol/l) in cord blood plasma lay between 11.66 and 75.92 (median 24.74). It declined shortly after birth. In the first 8 days of life, the time that screening for 21-hydroxylase deficiency is performed, 17OH-P ranged between undetected levels and an upper limit of 22.87 (median 4.11). Thereafter (days 9-28) its concentrations lay between 2.18 and 20.30 (median 6.22). Except one simple virilizer, all other patients with 21-hydroxylase deficiency had clearly elevated plasma 17OH-P at the time that screening for 21-hydroxylase deficiency would be performed. We suggest ID/GC-MS, which provides the highest specificity in steroid analysis, for checking suspicious concentrations of 17OH-P in neonates and underscore the potential of urinary steroid profiling by GC-MS as a rapid, non-invasive and non-selective confirmatory test for congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
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