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Clinical EndocrinologyMacroprolactinemia may influence the interpretation of serum prolactin levels—a recognised phenomenon since 1981. The degree of macroprolactinaemia over time is less well described.
Mark Livingston +2 more
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Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 2022 Cross reactivity with high molecular weight complexes of prolactin known as macroprolactin is a common cause of positive interference in assays for serum prolactin.
Michael N Fahie-Wilson +2 more
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Optimizing laboratory defined macroprolactin algorithm [PDF]
Biochemia Medica, 2019 Introduction Macroprolactinaemia is a well-known analytical problem in diagnostics of hyperprolactinaemia usually detected with polyethylene glycol (PEG) precipitation method.
Milica Šoštarić +3 more
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Macroprolactin: searching for a needle in a haystack?
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), 2016 Macroprolactin: searching for a needle in a haystack?
G. Lippi, M. Plebani
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Anais da Faculdade de Medicina de Olinda, 2018 Objective: To evaluate the importance of screening for macroprolactin in symptomatic patients with apparent idiopathic hyperprolactinemia. Methods: During 20 months, the prevalence of macroprolactinemia was evaluated among consecutive symptomatic female
Lucio Vilar +11 more
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Frequency of Macroprolactin in Hyperprolactinemia.
Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 2018 To determine the frequency of Macroprolactin (MaPRL) in patients with increased total prolactin and its clinical and financial impact.Cross-sectional study.Section of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from March to May 2015.Patients with high total prolactin were screened by ...
N. Sherazi, M. Baig, Aysha Habib Khan
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Comparison of urinary prolactin and serum/urine prolactin ratio in hyperprolactinemic and macroprolactinemic patients [PDF]
BMC Endocrine DisordersBackground Biologically, the monomeric form of prolactin is the most active. In measurement methods, all forms of prolactin are included in the assay; therefore, the presence of macroprolactin, causes a false increase in prolactin and misdiagnosis of ...
Behnam Ein-Mozaffari +8 more
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Gigantomastia and Macroprolactinemia Responding to Cabergoline Treatment: A Case Report and Minireview of the Literature [PDF]
Case Reports in Endocrinology, 2016 Background. Macroprolactinemia is defined as predominance of high molecular weight prolactin forms in the circulation. Although macroprolactin is considered as a biologically inactive molecule, some authorities suggest treatment in symptomatic cases ...
Fatma Dilek Dellal +5 more
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A possible cause of the variable detectability of macroprolactin by different immunoassay systems
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 2016 Background: Macroprolactinaemia is a major cause of hyperprolactinaemia. The detectability of macroprolactin varies widely among different immunoassay systems, but the causes are not fully known.
Akira Shimatsu
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Clinical relevance of macroprolactin [PDF]
Clinical Endocrinology, 2005 The anterior pituitary hormone PRL was identified in animal species as early as 1933 1 but only purified in humans in 1972. 2 Since then, the clinical syndrome of hyperprolactinaemia has been characterized extensively, the predominant symptoms being galactorrhoea, oligomenorrhoea or amenorrhoea and infertility in women and reduced libido, impotence and
James, Gibney +2 more
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