Electrophoresis, Vol.34, No.20-21, 2956-2961, 2013
Point of care creatinine measurement for diagnosis of renal disease using a disposable microchip
A point-of-care device for the determination of elevated creatinine levels in blood is reported. This device potentially offers a new and simple clinical regime for the determination of creatinine that will give huge time savings and removal of several steps of determination. The test employs a disposable prefilled microchip and the handheld Medimate Multireader (R). By optimizing the analytical conditions it was found that the LOD of the proposed method was 87 M creatinine, close to the normal human serum levels that are in the range of 60 to 100M. A statistical analysis of the residual shows a normal distribution, indicating the absence of systematic errors in the proposed method. The test can be used to distinguish patients with renal insufficiency (creatinine levels >100M) from healthy persons. Long-term monitoring could furthermore distinguish between acute renal failure and chronic kidney disease by the rate of creatinine concentration rise.