In a clinically hyperthyroid patient a TSH-value of 0.75 mU/L was measured. Upon retesting TSH was <0.1 mU/L. The patient's sample initially had been preceded, in the pipetting device, by a grossly hypothyroid patient's sample. Analogous problems were subsequently documented in 10 cases when samples of other hyperthyroid patients were preceded by samples with modestly to markedly elevated TSH. The spurious elevation of TSH (0.12 to 1.18 vs. <0.1 mU/L) appears to be due to a carryover effect from the respective previous sample within the used automatic pipetting system. This carryover was much larger than previously suggested, and occurred unpredictably.
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