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Original Article

Comparison of the everolimus concentrations measured in whole blood with everolimus QMS or sirolimus CMIA

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Pages 275-280 | Received 17 Nov 2017, Accepted 11 Mar 2018, Published online: 26 Mar 2018
 

Abstract

Few years ago, it was proposed that everolimus blood levels could be determined with the commercially available sirolimus chemiluminescence magnetic microparticle immunoassay (CMIA). More recently, a highly specific microsphere system (QMS) has been approved by FDA for therapeutic drug monitoring in humans. Aim of the present study was to compare the results of everolimus assay performed with everolimus QMS and with sirolimus CMIA. The two methods were compared with Passing–Bablok regression and Bland–Altman plot analysis. The Passing–Bablok regression analysis showed that although the results obtained with the two techniques were significantly correlated, CMIA-measured differed from QMS-measured everolimus concentrations by both a systematic and a proportional error. Specifically, at blood levels lower than 5 ng/mL CMIA were lower than QMS-measured everolimus concentrations. On the opposite, at everolimus blood concentrations higher than 10 ng/mL CMIA-estimated values became progressively higher than QMS-measured everolimus concentrations. The analysis of the Bland Altman plot showed a less than optimal agreement of the two tests (5.59% of the data point outside the ±1.96 SD interval). Moreover, the relationship between the difference between EveroQMS and EveroCMIA and their average was clearly concentration dependent with positive and negative values at concentration values lower and higher than 5 ng/mL respectively.

In conclusion, our finding showed that the values of everolimus concentrations measured with sirolimus CMIA differ from those detected with the FDA-approved everolimus QMS further suggesting that sirolimus CMIA should not be used anymore for everolimus therapeutic drug monitoring.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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