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  • Title: Case report: Three patients with substantial serum levels of 3-epi-25(OH)D including one with 3-epi-25(OH)D2 while on high-dose ergocalciferol.
    Author: Wiebe D, Binkley N.
    Journal: J Clin Endocrinol Metab; 2014 Apr; 99(4):1117-21. PubMed ID: 24476080.
    Abstract:
    CONTEXT: We report the presence of substantial concentrations of 3-epi-25(OH)D3 in two patients and a third patient with 3-epi-25(OH)D2. PATIENTS: The first patient, a 66-year-old female receiving cholecalciferol 4000 IU daily was originally found to have 53 ng/mL of 25(OH)D3 and almost an equal amount of 3-epi-25(OH)D3. Subsequently, the patient had four additional samples, each of which has similar levels of both 25(OH)D3 and 3-epi-25(OH)D3. The second patient, a 7-year-old male receiving cholecalciferol 1000 IU daily, had a 25(OH)D3 concentration of 37 ng/mL and 3-epi-25(OH)D3 of approximately 10 ng/mL. The third and most intriguing patient, a 55-year-old female was receiving ergocalciferol 50,000 IU twice weekly for approximately 3 months, at which time her serum 25(OH)D2 was 64 ng/mL and her 3-epi-25(OH)D2 was approximately 32 ng/mL. This patient's physician changed her vitamin D therapy to cholecalciferol 1000 IU daily, discontinuing ergocalciferol, and a second specimen was collected 5 months later. Analysis of this last specimen found both 25(OH)D3 and 25(OH)D2 at concentrations of 12 and 24 ng/mL respectively, plus corresponding 3-epimer peaks for both 25(OH)D3 and 25(OH)D2 observed chromatographically. CONCLUSION: The presence of a substantial concentration of 3-epi-25(OH)D in these three patients documents that one cannot assume 3-epi is a trivial metabolite of 25(OH)D for all patients. In addition, the appearance of 3-epi-25(OH)D3 when the last patient changed her vitamin D supplementation from ergocalciferol to cholecalciferol demonstrates that the 3-epimer is probably an endogenous metabolite of 25(OH)D in humans.
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