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Trial reportScientific reports2021

Validity of different copeptin assays in the differential diagnosis of the polyuria-polydipsia syndrome.

Clara Odilia Sailer, Julie Refardt, Claudine Angela Blum, Ingeborg Schnyder, Jose Alberto Molina-Tijeras, Wiebke Fenske, Mirjam Christ-Crain

3 registry-linked trialsOpen access · goldAbstract readClinical Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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24citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT00973154 phase3completednot on this map

Corticosteroid Treatment for Community-Acquired Pneumonia A Randomized, Double-blind Study- The STEP Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity Hospital, Basel, SwitzerlandRan2009 to 2014Enrolled800ConditionsCommunity-acquired PneumoniaArmsPrednisone
NCT01940614 completednot on this map

Use of Copeptin in the Differential Diagnosis of Diabetes insipidus-a Prospective International Study

TypeobservationalSponsorUniversity Hospital, Basel, SwitzerlandRan2013 to 2017Enrolled156ConditionsDiabetes Insipidus, Primary PolydipsiaArmsWater deprivation test, Hypertonic saline infusion
NCT02647736 nacompletednot on this map

Kinetics of Copeptin in Healthy Volunteers - a Prospective International Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity Hospital, Basel, SwitzerlandRan2012Enrolled90ConditionsCopeptin Blood ValuesArmsHypertonic saline infusion
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Copeptin in the diagnosis and management of renal tubular disorders.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2026
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  6. Arginine Vasopressin Deficiency and Oxytocin Deficiency in the Endocrine Clinic.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2026
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  12. Approach to the Patient With Suspected Hypotonic Polyuria.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2025
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  19. Diagnosis and Management of Central Diabetes Insipidus in Adults.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Clara Odilia SailerDepartments of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6439-8191
Julie RefardtDepartments of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3040-4685
Claudine Angela BlumDepartments of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0487-5587
Ingeborg SchnyderDepartments of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland.
Jose Alberto Molina-TijerasDepartments of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland.
Wiebke FenskeDepartment of Endocrinology and Nephrology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Mirjam Christ-CrainDepartments of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031, Basel, Switzerland. mirjam.christ-crain@usb.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-6336-0965
University of Basel · CHIFB Adiposity Diseases · DEUniversity Hospital of Basel · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to correlate three commercially available copeptin assays and their diagnostic accuracy in the differential diagnosis of the polyuria-polydipsia syndrome. Analyzed data include repeated copeptin measures of 8 healthy volunteers and 40 patients with polyuria-polydipsia syndrome undergoing osmotic stimulation and of 40 patients hospitalized with pneumonia. Copeptin was measured using the automated Brahms KRYPTOR, the manual Brahms LIA and the manual Cloud Clone ELISA assay. Primary outcome was the interrater correlation coefficient (ICC) and diagnostic accuracy in the polyuria-polydipsia syndrome of the three assays. In healthy volunteers, there was a moderate correlation for the KRYPTOR and LIA (ICC 0.74; 95% CI 0.07 to 0.91), and a poor correlation for the KRYPTOR and ELISA (ICC 0.07; 95% CI - 0.06 to 0.29), as for the LIA and ELISA (ICC 0.04; 95% CI - 0.04 to 0.17). The KRYPTOR had the highest diagnostic accuracy (98% (95% CI 83 to100)), comparable to the LIA (88% (95% CI 74 to 100)), while the ELISA had a poor diagnostic accuracy (55% (95% CI 34 to 68)) in the differential diagnosis of the polyuria-polydipsia syndrome. The KRYPTOR and LIA yield comparable copeptin concentrations and high diagnostic accuracy, while the ELISA correlates poorly with the other two assays and shows a poor diagnostic accuracy for polyuria-polydipsia patients. The current copeptin cut-off is valid for the KRYPTOR and LIA assay. Our results indicate that interpretation with other assays should be performed with caution and separate validation studies are required before their use in differentiating patients with polyuria-polydipsia syndrome.Trial registration: NCT02647736 January 6, 2016/NCT01940614 September 12, 2013/NCT00973154 September 9, 2009.

Indexed as

AdultCohort StudiesDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleGlycopeptidesHumansMaleMiddle AgedPolydipsiaPolyuriaYoung AdultcopeptinsGlycopeptides

Identifiers

PMID33980941
PMCPMC8114908
OpenAlexW3162580299

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