The method exhibited no observable ion suppression in the patient specimens tested and has an acceptably short analytical cycle time. Children with CKD had higher levels of ADMA and SDMA than the healthy siblings.

Low levels of serum testosterone typically found in women and children cannot be reliably measured by immunoassay. We developed a simple and sensitive method using high-performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS). Sample preparation involved protein precipitation of serum (1.0 mL) with acetonitrile containing the internal standard (testosterone-d3) followed by liquid extraction with methylene chloride. The chromatographic cycle per specimen was 10 min. The performance was evaluated according to the CLSI EP10-A2 protocol. Within- and between-run imprecision was 20.9%, 2.29% and 1.80%, and 1.81%, 3.58% and 2.97% at mean concentrations of 0.17, 14.1 and 28.8 nM, respectively, with no apparent carryover. The method was linear from 0.21 to 53.1 nM and the analytical recovery was 100.5-106.2% across the concentrations tested. There was no interference observed from other steroids that were tested. Correlation using de-identified patient specimens with a commercial HPLC-MS/MS method showed a slope of 0.991, an intercept of -0.017 and a correlation coefficient (R(2)) of 0.998 by linear regression over concentrations ranging from 0.21 to 16.7 nM. In conclusion, we report here an HPLC-MS/MS method suitable for clinical measurement of serum testosterone.

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Iohexol is a nonradioactive contrast medium, and its clearance from serum or urine is used to measure glomerular filtration rate (GFR). GFR is the most useful indicator of kidney function and progression of kidney disease. GFR determination using iohexol clearance is increasingly being applied in clinical practice, given its advantages over and correlation with inulin. We describe a high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method for iohexol clearance, requiring only 50 μL of serum. The sample preparation involves protein precipitation with LC/MS-grade methanol, containing ioversol as the internal standard. Samples are centrifuged and supernatant is dried under nitrogen gas at room temperature. Samples are reconstituted with mobile phase (ammonium acetate-formic acid-water). Iohexol is separated using an HPLC gradient method on a C-8 analytical column. MS/MS detection is in the multiple-reaction monitoring (MRM) mode and the transitions monitored are m/z 822.0 to m/z 804.0 and m/z 807.0 to m/z 588.0 for iohexol and ioversol, respectively.