%0 Journal Article %T Acromegalia: comparaci¨®n de los niveles s¨¦ricos de IGF-I por dos inmunoensayos y su correlaci¨®n con la prueba de tolerancia oral a la glucosa %A Boero %A L. %A Mallea Gil %A M S. %A Manavela %A M. %A Stalldecker %A G. %A Danilowicz %A K. %A Guitelman %A M. %A Alfieri %A A. %A Ballarino %A M.C. %A Chervin %A A. %A Garc¨ªa Basavilbaso %A N. %A Glerean %A M. %A Loto %A M.G. %A Nahm¨ªas %A J.A. %A Rogozinski %A A.S. %A Servidio %A M. %A Vitale %A N.M. %A Katz %A D. %A Fainstein Day %A P. %J Revista argentina de endocrinolog£¿-a y metabolismo %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X introduction: igf-i determination in serum or plasma is an essential tool in the diagnosis and follow-up of acromegaly. hepatic production of igf-i is regulated by gh and circulates bound to several igf-i binding proteins which extends its half life. igf-i is not released in a pulsatile pattern and has no significant variability in 24 h. objective: to evaluate two different methodologies in igf-i levels determination and their correlation with gh nadir in ogtt in acromegalic patients. material and methods: we analyzed 37 acromegalic patients, 20 women and 17 men, mean age was 45¡À12 years. igf-i levels were assayed by immulite 1000, dpc (imm) and dsl-5600 active£¿ igf-i coated-tube irma (dsl) and ogtts (at baseline and at 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes) were performed by measuring plasma glucose and gh assay by immunochemiluminometric assay (access); we considered a nadir <1ng/ml as normal response. nine patients were under medical treatment (cabergoline: 4, octeotride: 4, and cabergoline plus octeotrite: 1) and 28 without treatment. statistical analysis: wilcoxon and, bland and altman tests and roc curves. differences were considered significant at p< 0.05. results: basal glucose levels were 97.86¡À10.91 mg/dl and mean gh was 2.8 (1.59-14.4) ng/ml. mean igf-i levels performed by imm were 602¡À318 ng/ml and 1006¡À596 ng/ml by dsl. there was a statistically significant difference between both methodologies (p<0.01). bland and altman test showed a bias of - 403.2 ng/ml with lower values by imm. we observed elevated igf-i levels in 84% by imm and in 97% by dsl, and only one patient had normal levels with both methodologies. elevated igf-i levels and gh nadir >1ng/ml were observed in 70% of the patients, increased igf-i with normal gh nadir in 13.5%, normal igf-i with gh nadir >1ng/ml in 2.7% and normal igf-i with normal gh nadir in 13.5%. patients under treatment: 3 showed normal gh nadir with elevated igf-i levels, in 2 of them by both methodologies, and in the other one it wa %K acromegaly %K immunoassay %K ogtt. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-30342010000400003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en