Objective multicentre performance of the automated assays for AMH and estimation of established critical concentrations

Abstract

The measurement of AMH has now become widespread practice within the field of fertility treatment and research, despite technical issues with some of the original assays. The two new automated assays, with their potentially improved technical performance, require detailed examination and comparison under different conditions. In addition, the determination of categories of responses to ovarian stimulation, require re-evaluation for these new tests. The performance of the assays across numerous laboratories, and over a protracted timeframe, has been examined through the UK NEQAS published results. The automated assays show high quality performance figures over a broad concentration range, with exceptionally low variance figures, and they also yield very similar absolute concentration values. Critical response diagnostic concentrations have been re-evaluated by determination of age-related concentrations from within large population datasets.

Keywords: AMH; assay performance; automated assays; critical AMH values; response categories.